I first became interested in Christian Science,...

Annie Lewis with contributions from Elizabeth Lewis

I first became interested in Christian Science, through my sister asking me to listen to her while she read to me from the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I liked Science because it gave me such a different outlook on life and such blight prospects.

My first healing, with the help of a Christian Science practitioner, was of a form of consumption from which I had suffered since I was three years old and which I feared would bring about my end. The healing was complete, for I have led a normally active life ever since that time, over ten years ago, and I have been able to hold a responsible position.

With deep gratitude I can testify that with the help of Christian Science I have been able to teach myself to read. I knew that God would help me and give me right ideas. I learned the sound of each individual letter so that I could put two and three letters together, until finally I could read. I am grateful that Christian Science is giving me a true education. I was able to attend school for only one year, when I was eight or nine years old, because my childhood and youth were spent in ill-health. It is indeed a great joy to me to be able to read the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly and the Christian Science periodicals.

I am deeply grateful to God for Mrs. Eddy's unselfed love in establishing the Christian Science movement that all may enjoy learning about the great truths of creation. I am grateful for the practitioners and for the consecrated work they do, especially for the one who watched with me through a time of patient waiting, until Truth was indeed victorious. When I recognized Christ Jesus to be our Way-shower, and in humility asked the true way out of the belief of pain, then the whole situation began to clear.

For all the physical healings I have had, and they have been many, and for the guidance and protection received during the war years, I am thankful. Above all, I am grateful for the true sense of God as wholly good, not knowing evil. I should like to express my gratitude for the lectures and for the testimony meetings held on Wednesdays in our churches, also for the Christian Science Hymnal. A verse of one of the hymns expresses my experience (No. 41):

Come, labor on:
Away with gloomy doubts and faithless fear.
No arm so weak but may do service here;
By means the simplest can our God fulfill
His righteous will.

I am grateful for the privilege of being a member of The Mother Church and of a branch church.— (Miss) Annie Lewis, Manchester, Lancashire, England.

I wish to verify my sister's testimony. The Bible teaches us that "with God all things are possible" (Matt. 19:26). This statement was proved true, for through quiet study my sister is now able to read all of Mrs. Eddy's writings with confidence. I have received many healings, including one of constipation, for which I am sincerely grateful. I am also grateful for the love and kindness of the practitioner who helped us through a time when our faith was tried.

(Miss) Elizabeth Lewis

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