It is indeed a privilege and a joy to express my heartfelt...

Maud Hayne with contributions from Saidie Welch

It is indeed a privilege and a joy to express my heartfelt gratitude for all the good that has come into my life since I first became interested in Christian Science in March, 1915. For six years and four months prior to that time I had been an invalid, spending all of the time in tuberculosis sanitariums, from which I finally came out, pronounced incurable. I started to say that I came back home, but by that time we did not have a home; and at the last minute the people where my mother was boarding asked her to find another place for me, as they preferred that she should not take me there. My mother and I had talked of Christian Science, and had fully decided we would try it when I came back to Baltimore; and I am convinced that the working out of the problem of finding a home for me was our first proof of God's loving care. In desperation, as I was to leave the sanitarium the next day, my mother turned to God, and was led to the place where we made our home for nearly five years, until God again led us to another one—this time our own.

After my return I immediately started to attend the Christian Science church services, asked for help from a practitioner, and studied the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, day and night. My healing was rapid. At the end of two months I went back to business college, and in one month more, just three months after I had started to study the textbook, I took a position in the business world, where I am still employed.

Right here I should like to tell of another healing that took place during this time. Shortly after I became actively interested in Christian Science, I was taken with all the symptoms of the grippe; and as it always made me very ill and aggravated the tubercular symptoms, I was thoroughly frightened. At that time I did not know enough about Christian Science to know it was wrong to take my temperature, and as I found it very high, my mother called the practitioner at once over the telephone. In half an hour, I was absolutely free—all the symptoms gone and a gentle moisture on brow and hands. I was well, and I knew it. With this healing came the joyous realization that Christian Science heals. The uplifting that came at that time has never left me, as it was a breaking of the mesmerism that I had an incurable disease, and a glimmer of the divine truth that "with God all things are possible." Through the desire for my healing my mother also took up the study of Christian Science, and since that time we both have had many proofs of God's infinite goodness.

I am deeply grateful for church membership both in a branch church and in The Mother Church, for class instruction, and for the privilege of taking part in church activities. In spite of medical laws, I have been employed, not only constantly during the day, but many nights also, when serving as secretary to the clerk of the church, and later as clerk.

Truly, with many a previous testifier, I can say, "All that I have and all that I am, I owe to Christian Science." My humble prayer is for a daily closer walk with God, a clearer realization of His truth as demonstrated by Christ Jesus, and a deeper appreciation of my debt of gratitude to our beloved Leader for her priceless purity of heart and love for mankind, which brought again to light the healing power of Christian Science.—(Miss) Maud Hayne, Baltimore, Maryland.

I wish to bear grateful testimony to my daughter's healing, and to express gratitude for many healings which I have had in the past fifteen years. There have been numerous physical healings; fear of electrical storms has been largely overcome; lost articles have been found, and supply has been demonstrated. For all the blessings that have come to us through Christian Science I am very grateful—grateful for the periodicals, and for the help from loving practitioners when needed.—(Mrs.) Saidie Welch.

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