To all who may be wondering if Christian Science heals, I am happy to be able to answer, It does. I can no longer delay expressing my gratitude through our periodicals in the hope that the proof of the healing power of divine Principle in my own experience may encourage some other sincere seeker.

My mother took up the study of Christian Science in 1900, a number of years before my birth. It was the only physician known in our home, and with the help of its ministrations I was brought safely through many attacks of childhood diseases, notably several attacks of measles followed by pneumonia. Despite my knowledge of the healing power of Truth, I grew up with a feeling of intense resistance to it, and upon coming of age I united with a Protestant church and on different occasions sought the aid of a physician. May I say here to any parent who may be confronted with a similar situation: Fear not. The seed of Truth is planted in the consciousness of your dear one, and when the need is sufficiently great, he will obediently return to his Father's house.

That great need came early in my life, and I turned confidently to the Bible and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy for help, but not for physical healing. However, during the first year of my study and without assistance from a practitioner, I was healed of periodic hemorrhages and astigmatism. There followed shortly the perfectly harmonious settling of an estate which had become involved in a tangled mass of details and had defied all my human efforts. This was a surprise to me. I had known that Christian Science could heal physical disease, but now I had learned that it could be applied to all manner of discord. The practitioner who helped with this beautiful healing won my eternal gratitude.

Since that time, about sixteen years ago, I have been healed of nervous exhaustion, sprained ankles, menostasis, mastoiditis, an abscessed tooth, and fistula, to name but a few of my physical blessings. I am most grateful also for the healings of grief and of hatred.

From childhood I suffered from sprained ankles, often wearing tight bandages for weeks at a time. This error continued after I became a student of Christian Science, in spite of the fact that the condition had repeatedly been overcome, and once instantaneously. One day I asked myself, "Why does this problem keep presenting itself to me?" Then Mrs. Eddy's words on page 184 of Science and Health came to me: "The remedy consists in probing the trouble to the bottom, in finding and casting out by denial the error of belief which produces a mortal disorder, never honoring erroneous belief with the title of law nor yielding obedience to it." I saw clearly that although I had handled the aggressive mental suggestion of injury and had experienced the resultant freedom, I had never handled the suggestion that I had weak ankles. I proceeded to cast out this belief, to refrain from honoring it with the title of law, and from that day to this I have never again suffered a sprained ankle.

I thank God that my mother took up the study of Christian Science before I was born. Although I grew up without much understanding of the truth or how to apply it, as I progressed in my study I realized what an advantage had been mine, for neither the need for material remedies nor false theology had been instilled in my thought.

To be one of the great family of members of The Mother Church is a source of much joy and inspiration. Membership in a branch church has brought many opportunities for service and has taught many lessons. To have my three children regularly attend a Christian Science Sunday School fills me with happiness. Class instruction and our association meetings fill my cup to the brim. "The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage" (Ps. 16:6).—(Mrs.) Helen W. Krehbiel, Wilmington, California.

About twelve years ago I lost all desire to live. One night the thought came to me, "Why don't you ask God to take you to Him in His own way?" I did, and shortly afterward a friend told me about Christian Science and invited me to go to church with her. From the minute I stepped inside the church I knew it was what I had been seeking all my life.

At first there was opposition to Christian Science in my home, and it was necessary for me to study it secretly. The day I decided to take my stand openly for it I opened the Bible, and my eyes fell on the following lines (Ps. 27:10): "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up." This message served to strengthen me. I am happy to say that the opposition was gradually overcome through an increased reflection of Love on my part, and I know that Christian Science brought many blessings to my home.

Many, too, are the blessings which have come into my life through the study and application of Christian Science, among them continuing good health, a better sense of supply, and the opportunity to serve in a branch church.

My testimony would be incomplete without an expression of gratitude for the patient, consecrated practitioners, for all the literature, and for the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, for our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, and for membership in The Mother Church. I am unspeakably grateful for Christian Science. —(Mrs.) Helen Killinen, St. Petersburg, Florida.