I wish to express my gratitude...

Ernest F. Upton

I wish to express my gratitude for all the blessings which my family has received through the study of Christian Science. These have been many", and outstanding among them is an experience I had about two years ago.

One Sunday morning I became so confused halfway through my study of the Lesson-Sermon, taken from the Christian Science Quarterly, that I was unable to finish it and was obliged to ask my wife to read the last sections to me. Later in the day when we tried to read the lesson for the coming week together, as is our custom, I was totally unable to carry on my part in the reading.

Lack of physical co-ordination became apparent in addition to the mental confusion, seemingly the result of what may have been a slight stroke. We both began promptly to pray in order to reverse the evidence before the material senses. On Monday morning, and again on Tuesday morning, it was necessary for my wife to read to me; but by Tuesday evening I was able to read coherently and to resume my accustomed activities. Within a very short while I was in normal health.

I was grateful that no one except my wife, not even our young daughter who spent Sunday afternoon with friends, was cognizant of the situation. I was at the school in which my wife teaches, and in which our daughter is enrolled, on Tuesday afternoon and on several occasions later in the week, walking to and fro unaided and in complete command of all my faculties.

I feel that this healing was brought about largely as a result of prayerful work done over a period of many years to handle fear with some words of Mrs. Eddy's on page 61 of "Retrospection and Introspection." This passage was recommended for attention and use while I was having class instruction, a recommendation for which I shall always be grateful. It reads: "Science saith to fear, 'You are the cause of all sickness; but you are a self-constituted falsity, — you are darkness, nothingness. You are without "hope, and without God in the world." You do not exist, and have no right to exist, for "perfect Love casteth out fear."'"

Some five years ago I had searched Mrs. Eddy's writings for references to death in a consideration of Paul's statement (I Cor. 15:26), "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." This study had lessened my fear of death, which fact also strengthened me very much in the experience related here.

For many healings of my own, for healings experienced by other members of my family, for many evidences of God's government and guidance, for membership in The Mother Church and service in various branch churches at different periods of my experience, my gratitude is unbounded.—Ernest F. Upton, Beverly Hills, California.

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