I have always been so grateful...

Rachel Ellen Preston

I have always been so grateful that my sister, a sincere student of Christian Science, never recommended that I turn to it for help during many years of ill health and operations, because it was only when faced with yet another operation that I was really ready to ask for treatment from a Christian Science practitioner. From that moment I improved so rapidly that when I met the doctor who had attended me and insisted that there was no other way to relieve my current difficulty, a kidney condition, than by operating, he did not recognize me. When told why I was looking so well, he replied, "I know very little about Christian Science, but all I can say is I take off my hat to it!" That was well over twenty years ago, and I have since led a happy and full married life.

Our two boys have had the privilege of being at a school for the sons of Christian Scientists in this country, where they have been able to learn and live in a happy atmosphere with Christian Science governing all activities, for which they are both genuinely grateful. We have had healings of so-called infectious diseases, warts, sprains, bronchitis, and toothache.

"Trials are proofs of God's care," Mrs. Eddy tells us on page 66 of Science and Health, and indeed I proved this to be so three and a half years ago, when a slow but rewarding healing of a nervous breakdown took place in my experience. Through it I really learned to understand what Mrs. Eddy means when she says in "Pulpit and Press" (p. 3): "Our surety is in our confidence that we are indeed dwellers in Truth and Love, man's eternal mansion. Such a heavenly assurance ends all warfare, and bids tumult cease, for the good fight we have waged is over, and divine Love gives us the true sense of victory."

I owe much gratitude to one of our Christian Science Houses and to the practitioners who were so patient and faithful at this time.

I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church, for active membership in a branch church, and for class instruction, which does teach us how to put our individual understanding of Christian Science into practice.— (Mrs.) Rachel Ellen Preston, Rotherfield, Sussex, England.

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