Inestimable good has been and...

Betty Nicholson Evans

Inestimable good has been and is being accomplished through the comprehensive distribution of the authorized Christian Science literature so wisely planned and founded by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. In gratitude for the periodicals and for the literature distribution work carried on by The Mother Church and branch churches. I wish to relate how a copy of the Sentinel was instrumental in awakening me and changing my entire life.

Five years before I went to live with some relatives, a Christian Science student had given a member of that family a copy of the Sentinel. The recipient merely glanced at it and laid it aside. At the annual housecleaning time, when the family's old magazines were disposed of, the Sentinel was overlooked. A couple of years later, the accumulated old magazines were piled on the back porch in readiness to be sold to the ragman. Before he arrived a breeze blew the Sentinel into the back yard, and he did not see it.

It was carried into the house and placed in a closet, where it remained for two years more until I went to live with this family. When I saw the Sentinel, I took it to my room and placed it with my Bible, thinking I would read it at some later date.

Before coming to live with this family I had read a little of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, but I had not taken up the study.

A short time after the Sentinel came into my possession, I was again very ill, the third time within a year. The doctors disagreed as to whether or not another operation would benefit my case, for although I had gone to the hospital twice already, there had been no improvement. In my despair I turned to my Bible for comfort. Then I remembered the Sentinel, and read the first two articles in it. As I read I began to understand what I had previously read in the Christian Science textbook. When I reached, near the end of the second article, a portion of "the scientific statement of being," quoted from page 468 of Science and Health, I was instantaneously healed. Great was my joy, not only for the healing, but for the newfound light.

That occurred twenty-seven years ago. Since then, countless blessings have come to me and to my immediate family through the study and application of Christian Science. We have experienced many healings, such as those of pneumonia, broken bones, influenza, and minor ailments. Unemployment and lack of supply have been overcome. Protection and harmony have been realized. I am especially grateful for the Lesson-Sermons, and for all the lessons learned, even though with scalding tears, for these have brought me a better understanding of the tender, loving Father-Mother God, His goodness, nearness, and dearness.

My gratitude knows no bounds for the good that has come into the world because Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, was so spiritually-minded, and for the illumination she has thrown upon the Scriptures and upon the Master's life as the Way-shower. I am deeply appreciative of the privilege of class instruction with one of Mrs. Eddy's students, and of membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church. And I am ever grateful for the Sentinel that pointed out my pathway to Christian Science. Every day I thank God, whose ever-presence and loving care encircle all of us, no matter where we may be.— (Mrs.) Betty Nicholson Evans, San Bernardino, California.

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