Christian Science came into my life when I was a small boy, my parents and I having been helped by it shortly after I had suffered a severe illness. I am indeed grateful for the blessing of attending Sunday school, for our textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and for the truth which has gradually filled my thinking. This Science has continued to bless me and mine, and increasingly governs my thinking and action.

Physical difficulties have been few, and for these Christian Science treatment has been applied either by myself or by practitioners, for whose unselfed work it is hard to express enough gratitude.

Several instances of protection have been experienced. At a time when air raids were frequent, I was on duty one night at a naval establishment a few miles from my home. During the day I had gone to my cabin, desiring to read the Lesson-Sermon through, and thus had gained a strong sense of peace and harmony. While I was reading the Bible passages my eye fell on one not in the Lesson of that week (Ps. 127:1): "Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." For some time I pondered this passage, though there appeared to be no reason to do so, as the prospect of an air raid was not in my thought.

That night an air raid took place, the first for some time, and the severest my home town had experienced. As I stood on a hill watching, I recalled the passage I had read, and was filled with such gratitude that I had no fear for my family. I did not hear of any casualties from that raid, but more than one person said how remarkable it was that a high proportion of bombs fell in open spaces.

Some years ago I was tempted to have a horoscope done by an acquaintance who was skilled in this form of prediction. The prospect was exciting, and it appeared to be justifiable on the ground that should anything unpleasant be foretold it could be dealt with then and there in Christian Science. On discussing the matter with a friend who is a Christian Science practitioner, I was told that Mind is quite capable of revealing directly to one whatever he needs to know. This was convincing, and its truth has been proved to me. Desire for a horoscope vanished immediately.

A sentence in the letter which our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, wrote to First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York, and which is published in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 165), has often helped me: "Thus may each member of this church rise above the oft-repeated inquiry, What am I? to the scientific response: I am able to impart truth, health, and happiness, and this is my rock of salvation and my reason for existing."

For the magnitude of our God-inspired Leader's work in discovering and founding Christian Science, for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, for class instruction, and for a home the happiness of which we owe to Christian Science, I am profoundly grateful.—(Lt.) John M. Lade, R.N.V.R., Hove, Sussex, England.

I gladly verify my husband's testimony. The experience of protection he mentions was one of the many opportunities we have had since 1939 to prove that, as Mrs. Eddy puts it (Miscellany, p. 158), "We live in an age ofLove's divine adventure to be All-in-all."

I have been wonderfully protected from illness all my life and I know I have to thank Christian Science for this. When I was six years old I had a bad riding accident. My mother asked for Christian Science treatment, but my father, who was not a student at the time, felt a doctor should be called. He said there was a serious spinal injury and he feared I would not walk again. I was given treatment by a Christian Science practitioner and I still remember this kindly man's face when I ran to meet him at the front door on the third day after the accident had occurred.

I have experienced painless childbirth, and our two small children are already enjoying their Sunday school attendance.

For having been able to prove in some measure that it is indeed a law that "all things work together for good to them that loveGod, to them who are the called according to his purpose" (Rom. 8:28); for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, for clas instruction, and for all the activities of the worldwide movement which our beloved Leader was inspired and courageous enough to establish, I am truly grateful. Glimpses of God as the one ever-present, omnipotent Mind, who is Love, constitute heaven for me. In many perplexing situations I have been helped by turning my thought to the teachings and healings of Christ Jesus. My gratitude to the Master for his wonderful example knows no bounds.

I want to show my real gratitude for all that Christian Science teaches us of true manhood and womanhood by progressively learning to set personality aside, that the light of Truth may shine in the way of God's appointing. —(Mrs.) Shelagh Lade, Hove, Sussex, England.