Christian Science is an ever-increasing joy and blessing to me. It has lifted me out of invalidism and enabled me to fill my place in my home, my church, and my community.

In the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we find the statement (p. 1), "Desire is prayer." From childhood I had had a desire to know God. I had had immediate answers to prayer, which urged me to search for other people's similar experiences. I can see now that that desire led me to Christian Science.

During a year and a half of invalidism following an operation, I searched diligently for God and healing. Finally I was able to start teaching again, but health was still something to be attained. Then came remarriage into a home where the children were Christian Scientists; in fact, they knew nothing else. Trying to work together, we chose an orthodox Sunday School and church to attend. But this did not prove satisfactory. Illness constantly stalked the children. After three years it was decided they should go back to their Sunday School and church and my daughter and I would go with them.

By this time I had read some of the books on Christian Science in the home. I knew that it was what I should like to prove true. Thus when I became very ill again, I turned to Christian Science. I had not yet read the textbook and wavered several times. Finally, after three months, I turned completely to this truth and went to stay in the home of a Christian Science practitioner. Here I read a great deal of Christian Science literature, including the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly every day, talked and thought Christian Science, and saw it heal other people. I was much benefited, but not healed. My fear was intense; however, I did not turn back.

I changed practitioners and began to improve slowly. I decided to withdraw from the church of which I was a member and join The Mother Church. There was no organized church in our town. By this time I loved Christian Science and its promises. I became able to care for my family and my home by myself. I was able to do more physical work and more community work than the average person who claimed to be well. During this time I was able to dispense with eyeglasses after wearing them for seventeen years. I was healed of extreme insomnia, constipation, fissures, bleeding hemorrhoids, and other difficulties, which I considered minor issues. However, the heart disease continued to plague me, as did severe headaches.

I hung on to the promise given in Psalms (118:17), "I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord." It sustained me while I was learning that a matter-heart was not the seat of my life.

I have seen pneumonia, malaria, broken bones, stomach ulcers, and other ills, never diagnosed, healed.

Early in December, 1947, I found it necessary to make a decision as to whether I would have broken bones set by a surgeon or let Truth do the work. Both arms were broken—the right at the wrist and the left in and above the elbow. The left arm was badly torn and twisted. With the use of neither arm, I felt helpless and a little distraught at first, It took twelve hours or more of remembering the many occasions when God's goodness and power had been proved, before the decision was made to leave the healing entirely with God.

The morning following this decision the right arm was quite straight, and the third day I could open my fingers and feed myself. In one week I was taking care of many light activities and helping myself to a great extent. The left arm was carried in a sling for about two weeks, but it gradually came back to normal usage. It had hung so helpless at first that I felt that it was wonderful to have it useful once again. In about eight weeks I drove my car.

This healing was not completed as quickly as I might have wished, but it was accomplished through complete reliance upon Christian Science, and certainly more quickly than promised by any other method. There was much fear and false prophecy to be cast out. My sincere desire to prove the efficacy of the truth in an emergency enabled me to co-operate in the healing and brought growth in faith and in the assurance of God's availability.

Finally I heard a Christian Science lecturer quote from Science and Health (p. 297): "It is as necessary for a health-illusion, as for an illusion of sickness, to be instructed out of itself into the understanding of what constitutes health." This I understood to mean that there is neither sick matter nor well matter. This healed the heart trouble. The headaches have been healed as a critical disposition has yielded to a better understanding of God and man.

Class instruction followed this healing, and no more profitable or joyous experience has been mine. After class instruction I was more grateful than ever for the knowledge of Truth gained and the help received from the consecrated practitioners who had stood by during the years. I thank God for Mrs. Eddy's noble life and the truth she made available to all.—(Mrs.) Cora M. Dyck, Halstead, Kansas.