In the darkest time of my life...

Henry Rush

In the darkest time of my life Christian Science was presented to me. I was ready for it, but was so enmeshed in my troubles that all I got out of my first reading of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy was that it contained the truth. That was sufficient to hold my interest; so I kept reading it until greater enlightenment came to me. It is now more than forty years since that time, and I wish to express my gratitude to God for the many blessings that have been poured out upon me and mine through the study and application of Christian Science.

During the winter of 1918 and 1919, when the influenza epidemic was rampant, we were on the bleak prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada. One morning as I got out of bed I sank to the floor unconscious. When I regained consciousness, my wife helped me back into bed and then read to me from Science and Health for about an hour. Then I arose, dressed myself, and went out and cared for the stock.

The thermometer registered forty degrees below zero. My wife had arranged previously to help a neighbor that day, but did not want to leave me alone. However, I assured her I was all right; so she went. I took care of the stock at noon and again that evening.

The next morning my wife experienced a similar attack. I put her back to bed and read to her from Science and Health for about an hour. She then arose and prepared our breakfast. Up to this time, we had been studying only part of our Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly each morning, but from that time on we studied the whole lesson every morning before going to our day's work. Neither of us suffered further from influenza.

Some months later while I was driving a five-horse team, one horse became so unruly that I became exasperated, stopped the team, and struck the ribs of the horse three times in rapid succession. As I did so my shoulder slipped out of place and then painfully went back into place. This shoulder had been badly injured in 1914 and again in 1917. After the second injury, for a period of two years it became dislocated with any quick move.

Immediately after the episode with the horse, I made a firm resolution that I would not allow myself to become angry again. That was the end of the trouble with my shoulder, which never once has been dislocated since that time. The incident proved to me that healing comes with regeneration.

I am deeply grateful to God for Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, and for our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, as well as for all the blessings that have come to this world through Christian Science.—Henry Rush, Seattle, Washington.

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