I will always be grateful for having attended a Christian Science...

ALOHA L. SCHWERDTMAN

I will always be grateful for having attended a Christian Science Sunday School, and for membership in The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and in a branch church. The spiritual growth that these activities brought me helped me through a serious trial.

One day I was suddenly stricken with severe hemorrhaging. The physical evidence was so disturbing that I experienced considerable shock. However, fear was brought into subjection as I realized that no matter how terrible the problem appeared to be, it did not belong to my real identity as God's beloved child.

When the bleeding and a growing sense of weakness persisted over a period of several hours, I telephoned a Christian Science practitioner and asked for her loving support. Within three hours of my requesting this help through prayer, the bleeding stopped as suddenly as it had begun, and the condition has not recurred. Truly, "the Lord is gracious and full of compassion" (Ps. 111:4).

The blessings of Christian Science have touched every facet of my life. I have been healed of grief, and of fear of going out alone after dark.

I have also been healed of fearing impoverishment. After years of lying awake nights worrying over seemingly unsolvable financial difficulties, one day it struck me that I was not turning to the right source for an answer to the basic problem. I then did a lot of thinking and praying about the whole question of supply— affirming that our true source of supply is God, good. I also acknowledged that this supply was certainly evident in my life, for I had never gone hungry. I had always had food, shelter, clothing, transportation, and my books, the Bible and Science and Health. And most important, I felt loved.

As I prayed for greater spiritual understanding, I had a wonderful feeling of well-being. I was released from fear of lack and from a sense of limitation. As Hymn No. 6 in the Christian Science Hymnal tells us: "And trust His love whose sure supply/Meets all thy need abundantly." Now the gift of normal sleep has been added to my other blessings. I dearly love this line in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. vii): "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." It is indeed.

ALOHA L. SCHWERDTMAN
Los Angeles, California

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