In my early childhood a fall brought complications that physicians predicted would cause permanent invalidism. Later, severe heart and lung disorders developed for which I doctored many years, finally moving to California, hoping that the climate would be beneficial. The change gave me no relief, and the admission of a conscientious doctor that he could offer me no hope led me, as a last resort, to ask for a Christian Science treatment. Never shall I forget that treatment, and the experience that followed! The practitioner, after treating me, told me to go home and read the first and ninety-first Psalms, and "the scientific statement of being" on page 468 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, with the realization that every word in these statements was meant for me. I did as I was told, and read and reread them until I had them memorized. Still repeating these wonderful promises, I undressed and went to bed. The next thing I knew it was morning. I had slept comfortably all night, a thing I had not been able to do for many weeks, and I felt entirely well. To prove to myself that the healing was true, that very day I applied for life insurance, which I had never been able to secure. The physician who examined me pronounced me sound and recommended that the policy be granted.

This healing took place so suddenly that I did not grasp the necessity of daily study and church activities until several years later, when I met the young woman, an earnest student of Christian Science, who afterwards became my wife. Since then, membership in both The Mother Church and a branch church, class instruction and attendance at Association meetings, have been important steps in our experience together, and have been of great help in solving our daily problems and rearing our children.

I should like to tell of a recent cause for gratitude. For two years a disorder, which included the fear of death, persisted with me in spite of faithful work done. Then I discovered that the fear and its effects had entirely disappeared from my thought. In analyzing the situation, I recognized that the earthquake in Long Beach had indirectly brought me a blessing. The night of the quake I was driving home from a business trip. When but twenty miles away from home I heard over the radio that Long Beach had been destroyed and that the district in which we lived had been swept into the sea by a tidal wave. However, my wave of fear was turned into a wave of gratitude when I found my family and home safe and sound. Some time later it was necessary to have a physical examination, in order to reinstate an insurance policy, and the physicians found no trace of the recent disorder. This healing in my consciousness will always be a reminder that an incomplete demonstration is often brought to complete fulfillment by an abundant sense of gratitude.

I am indeed grateful to God for the many blessings which a little understanding of Him has brought to me, and I render my heartfelt gratitude to our revered Leader, who made this understanding possible, for me and for all.

Clark B. Day, Long Beach, California.

For many years I have desired to send a testimony to our periodicals, and of late my heart has been overflowing with gratitude to the Christian Science Sunday School, for the foundation which I received there, and which now my children and thousands of other children are receiving. At one period of my girlhood it was impossible for me to attend Sunday school. Not recognizing the need for faithful study by myself, I did not realize how far from the truth I was slipping, until one day, when taken suddenly ill at school, I found I could not remember a single statement of Truth. I fainted and fell heavily over a desk. I was taken home and Christian Science treatment was immediately given, which resulted in such a quick healing of the illness and of injuries received from the fall that the conviction came to me that no matter how far I had removed my thought from God, He was right at hand when I needed Him most. This made me resolve never to slip so far away again, and right then the decision was made to be a Christian Scientist myself, not just the daughter of Christian Scientists. Very soon the opportunity came to return to Sunday school, which I joyously attended until the age of twenty.

I am also grateful for the teaching our children are receiving and for their ability, even when very young, to make it practical. One day when alone with them, an attack of blindness nearly overwhelmed me, for it was accompanied by great pain. Similar attacks had been overcome before, but this time a practitioner could not be reached. I asked our four-year-old daughter to know the truth for me. She replied, "If I just love you and love you and know that God is everywhere, will that help?" I told her I knew that it would, and it did. In half an hour complete freedom was realized, and, better yet, there has never been another attack.

Another time our little son helped me when I had a sprained ankle. He reminded me that God fills all space. I had heard that statement all my life, but when it came from the pure thought of a little child, the words seemed of tremendous power and brought the realization that it was true, and that consequently there was no place for pain; and the healing was instantaneous.

I cannot begin to enumerate the comfort and healing that Christian Science has brought to me; nor can I ever fully express the joy that comes to me from active service in church, from attendance at Association meetings, and from the daily study of the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, the periodicals, and all of our books with the aid of the Concordances.

My greatest desire is to prove my love for God and my gratitude to our beloved Leader by living so that I may be able to help others to feel God's nearness and power, and His always available willingness to help and heal.

(Mrs.) Charlotte G. Day, Long Beach, California.