Christian Science came to me...

Ida P. Wolcott

Christian Science came to me at a time when everything seemed useless and I was in great physical distress. A maid in my home, noting that I had tried every other remedy, mentioned that Christian Science might help me. I recalled that a neighbor was a Christian Scientist, and I asked the maid to call her in, which she did. After I had unloaded my troubles before her, my neighbor calmly replied, "God knows nothing about all this." Startled, I asked, "What does Christian Science teach God to be?" My friend left me and returned shortly with a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and said I could borrow it.

I started to study this precious book immediately, for I was most anxious to understand God as this dear, calm person had explained Him to me. Next I started regularly to attend Christian Science church services.

Shortly thereafter I enrolled my young son in the Sunday school. For this privilege alone I am deeply grateful. Today he is in the armed forces, serving overseas as the pilot of a bomber. His letters are an inspiration. They express his gratitude for Christian Science, and relate how his understanding of its teachings is sustaining him and his crew on missions. He recently wrote that on the first bomb released from his ship the crew had inscribed, "With malice toward no man." This boy is sincerely grateful for his Sunday school experience and to all who lovingly helped him prepare for the present world challenge. His Christmas letter to us contained the prayer that all mankind would be awakened to the understanding of God that saves and heals.

My own healing came when I was truly able to see man as God made him. The need to see man in this way became clearer to me as I absorbed the meaning of and put into use the passage in Science and Health (pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick." As soon as I could prove my own identity as the child of God, I saw that this was the truth about all men. This realization removed the fear, resentment, and hatred which had seemed so real to me on many occasions.

Today I can joyfully and gratefully, with many others, praise God for the manifold blessings Truth has brought me, including freedom gained by a member of my family, who is now progressing in his right work. I am grateful for membership in a branch church and for the opportunity to serve there, for the helpful literature, and for class instruction from a faithful student of our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy.

I am grateful for the fine work being done by our Wartime Ministers and to The Mother Church for the establishment of this activity in the Field. I am deeply grateful to our beloved Leader, who has given the "pearl of great price" to all mankind, and I sincerely pray to be worthy of the name "Christian Scientist."— (Mrs.) Ida P. Wolcott, Scarsdale, New York.

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