Gratitude to God and to Christian Science...

Mary B. Dominski

Gratitude to God and to Christian Science for twenty years of continuous health and happiness impels me to write this testimony.

In 1925 I took a teaching position in a high school which was located next door to a Christian Science church and Reading Room. All through my university and teaching experience I had been searching for a satisfying religion or philosophy, and a church home, but had failed completely to find them. Intellectualism and agnosticism were poor substitutes, and I knew it. With a renewed hope I entered the building and borrowed the book which was to revolutionize my thinking and my life. I read it through, and with a start identified the initials signed to one of the testimonials in the chapter called "Fruitage" as those of my own cousin, whose home I had visited when I was a child.

Only then did I recall an early experience which apparently had made no impression on me at the time, but like a seed had lain dormant all those years. I remembered distinctly how loving, kind, and entirely harmonious had been the atmosphere of that beautiful home with its great expanse of windows overlooking the calm waters of a midwestern river. I had been sitting by the window one day with my cousin's wife, who was sewing. She asked me if I would mind going to the kitchen to look at something cooking on the stove. I lifted the cover and screamed with pain as the concentrated steam struck my arm. That evening I remarked: "That was the queerest burn I ever had. My arm still is red, but it has not pained a bit." My hostess put her arm around me and said: "That was because this is a Christian Science home, dear. You were helping me, and I knew that you could not be hurt in my home."

While I was there, I attended church with my relatives, but the subject of Christian Science had completely dropped out of my thought until I saw those familiar initials and the address in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. My excitement then was keen. I started attending Christian Science services and have missed very few in the intervening years. My life then began to have a sense of direction; I felt guided in all my decisions. A happy marriage and continued success and joy in the teaching profession have followed, and I have experienced and witnessed numerous healings. I have been healed of headaches and colds and of the need of wearing glasses. In these twenty years I have never been absent from my post because of illness and have never spent a day in bed.

I am especially grateful for the privileges I have had of serving in the various activities of a branch church. Each day I realize that every branch of The Mother Church may bear witness to "the structure of Truth and Love" (Science and Health, p. 583), and that the spiritual growth of each is vital. Christ Jesus said (John 15:5), "I am the vine, ye are the branches." I am also deeply grateful for class instruction, which has enabled me better to comprehend the meaning of the Bible and its "key," Science and Health, and the other works of Mrs. Eddy; and to know the saving power of an ever-present knowledge of God.

Sincere and unprejudiced seekers for Truth are sure to find God, for He "seeketh such to worship him."—(Mrs.) Mary B. Dominski, Hamburg, New York.

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