The benefits that come with the understanding in Christian Science of the relationship of God and man as creator and idea have been unfolding to me since 1930, when I married a girl reared from childhood in this religion. Healings experienced by my wife and son, and the help it was to me in business even before I was a church member, impressed me with the value of Christian Science to mankind. The first experience that aroused my interest was the healing which my wife describes in her endorsement to this testimony.

My interest was rewarded. I had held one position for many years. It involved very important, interesting work, but each time there was an opportunity for promotion, someone else was selected and I stood still. During a Christian Science lecture I was greatly impressed with the explanation of the word "wait" in the Bible promise (Isa. 40: 31), "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength."

After all human steps had failed, I sought help from a practitioner. He convinced me that I could not expect God to lift me bodily out of a situation, as I had always believed He would, but that an understanding of God would lift up my thought and lead me to my right place.

The spiritualization of my thought followed, improving me, my work, and my value to my employer. I progressed from where I was to the position I would have had if I had moved step by step with my associates. Christian Science enabled me to solve technical, process, human relation, and general business problems and to conduct harmonious negotiations with labor unions. The understanding of the true relationship of God and man and the many spiritual blessings that come to one through membership in a branch church furnished the background for this improvement in my affairs.

Over a period of several months I endeavored to commune more intelligently with God during the minutes of silent prayer in our church services. As a result I learned how to improve these minutes; but I also learned that the more often we commune with God in our daily experience, the more often we shall find wrong thoughts crowded out and harmony evidenced.

Entertaining thoughts of God's omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience and of man as His spiritual image and likeness protected me when I fell while removing leaves from the roof of our house. At the instant, my thought was centered on the allness and goodness of God's power and intelligence. I was unharmed by the fall and able to resume my work quickly.—Harry L. Priddy, Toledo, Ohio.

I am happy to verify the statements in my husband's testimony.

The experience of mine, a miscarriage, to which he refers, took place several weeks after our arrival in a country overseas and at a time when the only person in the house was a maid with whom I could not as yet talk because of the language barrier. However, she was able to understand that I needed my husband and she telephoned him, but there was no way for me to ask a practitioner for treatment.

When fear because I was alone and ill seemed overwhelming and it appeared that I was losing consciousness, these wonderful words came to me (Isa. 41:10): "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." Paul's words also came to me (Acts 17:28), "In him we live, and move, and have our being." Statements of truth from the textbook by Mrs. Eddy came to my thought too, and I pondered all these angel messages and held firmly to them.

The fear and pain left, and by the time my husband arrived home, I was able to tell him that I was all right. That evening we kept an engagement with friends who lived on the opposite side of the city. To reach them, we had to take a rather strenuous bus ride as well as a train ride; but we spent a pleasant evening, and I felt no aftereffects.

For membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, for the privilege of class instruction, and for our dear Leader, my husband and I are indeed very grateful.—(Mrs.) Mary Anne Priddy.