Christian Science was brought...

Lydia A. Rice

Christian Science was brought to my attention in 1901 by a cousin who had been benefited by it. Although for several years Christian Science services had been held in Melbourne, Australia, where I then lived, I had never heard of it. At once I became very much interested, and asked many questions, which were answered most satisfactorily. Three days after this introduction to Christian Science I attended the Wednesday evening testimony meeting, and later the Sunday service. I bought the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and began to study the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly.

A short time later, when on a trip to the country, I was taken seriously ill with bronchial asthma. I had had periodic attacks previously, and two doctors said they could do nothing for me. I sent word to a Christian Science practitioner in the city for treatment and was healed immediately. There has never been a return of this trouble in over forty years.

A little later, while on the same trip, I became suddenly ill and suffered much pain. After I had been in bed for four days and had been unable to take any nourishment, the landlady called in a doctor. The doctor said I was in for a very long illness with pneumonia, which was then prevalent, and with two other serious complications. While he was saying this I turned my back on error, and declared mentally that I did not have any such conditions. That repudiation of the error healed me.

By studying the textbook I have also been healed of sick and nervous headaches and of hay fever of seventeen years' duration. I am also most grateful for many other benefits received, such as supply, protection, activity, and improved health.

I am profoundly grateful to our Father-Mother God, who has so lovingly blessed us; to Christ Jesus, the Way-shower; and to Mary Baker Eddy, for her untiring devotion to humanity in giving us the textbook. I am also grateful for the privilege of attending an Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, and of visiting the Christian Science Benevolent Association sanatoriums in Chestnut Hill and in San Francisco, for class instruction, and for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church. Truly, as Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 1). "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love."—(Mrs.) Lydia A. Rice, Long Beach, California.

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