"Therefore with joy shall ye...

Faith Emery Hurd

"Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation." That is what I have been doing for the last forty years, joyfully knowing that God is Love, and that He heals all our diseases and forgives all our sins. As a child, I was always longing to know God, where and what He was. My desire was answered when I found Christian Science.

I was training to be a nurse in a hospital in this city when I was taken ill. The disease was called incurable—tuberculosis of the bowels. I was sent home to die. Through the loving-kindness of a friend, I turned in my despair to Christian Science. My healing was slow, for there were many so-called mortal laws and much fear to be overcome.

When I looked these laws and fears squarely in the face and said: "I do not care if I die. This is the truth, to be proved here or in another state of consciousness," I at once began to improve.

A relative told me that Christian Scientists worshiped Mrs. Eddy. When we were invited to her home at Pleasant View in 1903, I thought, "Now I shall find out if Christian Scientists do worship her." When she came out on the balcony and looked down on us with so much love, all that I could think of was my mother. Then I thought, I do not worship my mother, I love her. So Christian Scientists love Mrs. Eddy because she has shown God to them as Love. Since I had been brought up to believe that God was variable, sending both good and evil, it was wonderful for me to know that God is altogether Love.

Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 140): "The Jewish tribal Jehovah was a man-projected God, liable to wrath, repentance, and human changeableness. The Christian Science God is universal, eternal, divine Love, which changeth not and causeth no evil, disease, nor death." I can never be grateful enough for this truth, which is here for me to demonstrate through time and eternity.—(Mrs.) Faith Emery Hurd, Boston, Massachusetts.

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