I was brought up in Christian Science, but in my teens I left the Sunday School and the Church of Christ, Scientist, because of a false sense of sophistication and the notion that religion was for the old. Eighteen years later I found myself in a painful physical condition for which doctors said there was no relief.

I had had three operations, all of them considered successful, except that the wound would not heal but kept getting bigger. It was planned that I undergo a fourth operation, with no assurance of better results. In desperation I returned to the religion of my childhood, remembering all it had done for our family in those early years. I made one telephone call to a Christian Science practitioner. In fifteen minutes I was out of pain and on the road to a complete healing, which took place within just a few days.

With great gratitude I then turned wholeheartedly to reliance on the truth of scientific being as I had been taught, and as I began to understand as a result of further study of the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy's writings, a number of healings rapidly followed.

For some years I had been suffering from asthma. One night, about six months after the healing first mentioned, I was sitting up in bed reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs. Eddy, but choked and terrified that I would not be able to draw another breath, I decided to call a practitioner. Repeating Jesus' reply to the Pharisee he asked me one question: "Dost 'thou ... love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind'?" (Matt. 22:37.) I thought deeply for a moment—then felt I could truthfully answer, "Yes, I do." The healing was instantaneous.

About six months later I was a member of a branch church and had started to teach in the Sunday School. When I woke one Sunday morning I noticed the beginning of a large boil on my body. Boils had been recurrent over the past two years, but since I had begun relying on Christian Science, they had been overcome in shorter time than before. I did not want to be kept from my duty at Sunday School, so I turned on the problem with what I later realized was complete authority and verbally told it to get out, that it was no part of God or of me as God's child and I would not put up with it. When I came back from church, the boil had entirely disappeared, and I never again had another.

Some years later, while gardening, I suffered what appeared to be sunstroke and went to the Christian Science Benevolent Association, San Francisco, California, for rest and care. The first night, lying in bed fearfully, but praying as well as I knew how to pray, these words came to me (Isa. 41:10): "Fear thou not; for I am with thee." I clung to this comforting statement over the next several days, and within a short time was on my way home, healed.

A few years ago overwork seemed to bring me low with an apparent nervous breakdown. This took three months to work out, but I was healed when, with the help of a practitioner, I could finally see that I was hanging on to the belief of breakdown—it was not hanging on to me—and stopped watching for and analyzing physical symptoms. I did not ignore the symptoms, but with a deeper understanding of Christian Science gained through class instruction I replaced physical analysis with the truth about body. I realized that man's body in reality is the harmonious embodiment of spiritual ideas, and I expanded my awareness of God's allness, goodness, perfection, and power. Finally I knew that I had been healed and could go back to work.

In addition to all the physical healings I have had, Science has led me in business through progressively interesting, challenging, and fulfilling work, has unfailingly supplied every financial need, and has provided me with wholly satisfying companionship. Truly I have experienced goodness in a way that at one time I would not have imagined possible.

(Miss) Frances Inglis
Los Angeles, California