I did not turn to Christian Science for healing, but because of curiosity. The church to which I belonged kept losing so many members to the Christian Science church that I felt there must be something to the religion and secretly began attending the church myself. I found it all too wonderful to keep secret; and soon both my children and my husband went with me, and we all were delighted with the truths that unfolded to us as a consequence.

We made friends with some of the members, one of whom, I discovered, lived down the street from us, and I remember how many, many questions I asked her in those beginning days of studying Christian Science.

One was, "Why is there so much sickness in the world if God did not make it?" Her answer shone like a light in my consciousness.

She said, "Actually there is no sickness—only a belief of sickness."

Another time I asked her what was the difference between flesh and Spirit, and she said that was like asking the difference between zero and a figure 1. The zero was always nothing (as flesh was nothing but a mortal belief) while the figure 1 was something (as Spirit is all reality and Truth).

I could not understand what was meant by reflection; so she referred me to page 250 of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy where I read, "Man is not God, but like a ray of light which comes from the sun, man, the outcome of God, reflects God." I read Science and Health every spare moment.

At about this time lumps appeared on my body, and a rash covered me. When I called my friend, she referred me to a practitioner, who asked me to visit her office. She completely allayed my fear, and I felt I was lifted to the very heavens. She gave me a treatment every day for a week, and slowly I began to realize that the discords and inharmonies I believed in and thought a part of my character were not a part of me at all since I was in truth a perfect reflection of perfect God and that I could let go of all erroneous thinking. At this point the lumps and rash disappeared.

From then on it was a matter of joyous study and spiritual growth and unfoldment. Colds, to which I had always been subject, became less frequent until I rarely have one now.

Recently when preparing for a trip to another state, I decided to do some specific studying on travel and protection before the departure of the train. I opened a Sentinel to the script of a radio program entitled "Dare to Be Honest!" I thought that this did not have anything to do with travel but that I would study it anyway. I was surprised that one of the Bible quotations in the script was (Gal. 5:14), "All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." I pondered this quotation as I drove to the station.

When I paid for my ticket, I inquired about the parking of my car for the time I would be gone and was told I would have to talk to the policeman on the lot. I rushed back to the lot, and while I was speaking to the policeman a man approached me, smiling as if we had always known each other, and asked, "Did you lose something?" Upon searching in my purse I found that I did not have my billfold, with all my money in it.

The man laughed; then he picked up my suitcase and carried it upstairs to the ticket window for me, explaining as we went that he had seen my billfold lying on the floor in front of the ticket window in full view of all passersby and had given it to the ticket man, who remembered it as being mine.

When I was handed my billfold, intact, I recalled with awe the beautiful script I had read on honesty and was very grateful for the protection and for the proof that the man who found it did indeed love his neighbor as himself.

Recently I suffered from an attack of abnormal action accompanied by intense spasmodic pains. The practitioner I called was patient in insisting I must correct my belief in the reality of sickness; this I seemed to be able to do until the pains attacked me. He said, "Nothing can attack God's perfect being." I held firmly to the truth that I, as God's reflection, had my being in Him. The illness disappeared by the seventh day, and action became normal.

I am grateful to God for Christ Jesus and for Mrs. Eddy, for the truths and spiritual enlightenment in the blessed Holy Bible and the key to the Bible, Science and Health. "The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works" (Ps. 104:31).—(Mrs.) Charlett Texier Richeson, Ashland, Virginia.