When I found Christian Science...

Lacy W. Pyle

When I found Christian Science I was seeking a healing of weeping eczema. I had exhausted all material means in searching for a cure. At this point a friend, a student of Christian Science, asked me to try Science. I consented because man's extremity had been reached, and I was desperate. The first thing I did was to call an experienced Christian Scientist. She pointed out, in a general way, how to apply the teachings of this Science to my problem, and I proceeded to do this to the best of my ability.

Soon I began to realize through study that all forms of sin were in a sense diseases, and in my case many of them would have to be healed before the physical manifestation was removed. I had always thought it was just and right to take offense when someone offended me; also to get out of life all that it was possible to get, and my efforts were based solely upon materiality. Spirituality was a stranger to me.

Help from a practitioner continued to be sought from time to time. The results of taking my stand for a more spiritual concept of life were beginning to dawn on me. In the past I had noticed that when I entertained hateful thoughts the physical ailment would become aggravated. So I reasoned that to replace these with thoughts of love, kindness, patience, and purity, as Christian Science teaches us to do, was actually the key to freedom, and I resolved to put my newfound system of living into operation.

But to my surprise this was not as simple as it seemed. Error was not to be denied its seeming power, and there was a battle to be fought. It soon became apparent that these mesmeric beliefs of error's reality had a greater hold on me than I realized, and in order to cast them out, I would have to take a determined and positive stand for Truth and Love.

Discouragement and fear of failure became very persistent, and it seemed that on many occasions my feeble faith would fail me. However, the truth of the man of God's treating had been clearly revealed to my consciousness, and I knew that the Christ had revealed it to me and would continue to help me if I continued to help myself.

In the meantime I joined The Mother Church and a branch church. I accepted appointments to serve in the branch church and studied the Quarterly Bible Lessons each day. Slowly but surely the arguments of error began to weaken. My statements of Truth began to carry more and more weight.

Physical discord yielded to this prayerful metaphysical treatment, and I became so engrossed in the new and true way of Life that the physical body, as a governing factor, seldom came to mind. My way of thinking was completely reversed. Spirituality in place of materiality was now substance to my consciousness. The long-standing belief of skin disease and its visible appearance disappeared, and many other forms of physical disability have been met and destroyed.

Words are poor vehicles to use in expressing the thoughts of gratitude I entertain for Christian Science, for the life and works of Christ Jesus, for Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and for the present-day devout members of its movement, of which Mrs. Eddy is the Leader.

I realize that there is still much work for me to do along the lines of spiritual awakening, but it is enough for me to know at present that I have begun my journey from sense to Soul.—Lacy W. Pyle, Houston, Texas.

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