I will never cease to be grateful for the tremendous spiritual...

Nelson Jack Saunders

I will never cease to be grateful for the tremendous spiritual breakthrough that came to the world when the prophecy of Isaiah was fulfilled in the birth of Christ Jesus (Isa. 7:14): "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."

I was born with limited intelligence, and my grammar school days were a terrible nightmare. I seldom passed an examination. I failed to pass several grades and had to repeat them, so I was seventeen when I started high school. Unable to grasp the teachings, I dropped out of school two months later.

When I was twenty-one, an aunt came to our home and said to me, "Jack, you are God's idea." Later that evening my aunt and a sister took me to a local Christian Science Reading Room. I borrowed the King James Version of the Bible and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. Every night till past midnight I read Science and Health. I finished it in two weeks and found that I had been healed of smoking and a desire for wine.

From then on I attended the Sunday services and Wednesday testimony meetings in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist; read the Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly; and had help from Christian Science practitioners at various times. Every day I declared, and prayed to demonstrate, the fact that I reflected divine intelligence. I denied that I was a mortal born of mortal parents, and that I had a mortal ancestry. Mrs. Eddy's discovery, Christian Science, reveals the real man, God's idea. I claimed that in my true being I was created by divine Mind, and therefore must be an intelligent manifestation of Mind. In Science and Health we read (p. 63), "In Science man is the offspring of Spirit." This was the key to my release from mental limitation. I am most grateful to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, because she showed in her great book, Science and Health, that God is the true Mind of man.

I am now awake to my birthright to express the intelligence that is from God. Christian Science is revealing to me a true concept of myself as God's intelligent idea. I am grateful for the freedom I have won from the belief of limitation.

Nelson Jack Saunders
Boston, Massachusetts

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