It is a pleasure to acknowledge the great benefits which have come to me through Christian Science.
2010
It is a pleasure to acknowledge the great benefits which have come to me through Christian Science.
2010
I know that things which I did and thought last year I would not do or think this year, and am satisfied.
"You feel well, do you not?" I assured her that I never had felt so well as I had since reaching there. "Well," she said with decision, "your tumor is gone, for God never made it," and her statements were true, for it has never been heard of from that day.
I learned that the infinite good is the one Friend upon whom we can call at all times, an all-powerful, ever-present help in every time of trouble; that His children are really governed in peace and harmony by spiritual law, and as the right understanding of it is gained, the other things soon follow, bringing a peace the human concept can never know.
I knew then, as I know now, that nothing satisfies but Love. That day began the outward and inward conscious healing,--mental and physical. There never came a doubt! I absolutely knew that Christian Science was and is the truth. Money, friends, materiality, are nothing beside the conscious knowledge of God, man, and the universe.
Two and three o'clock in the morning often found me poring over its pages, which grew more and more sacred to me every day, and the help I received therefrom was wonderful, for which I can find no words to express my gratitude.
For this, together with the greater and higher blessing of having the spiritual fact of being unfolded to me, I am most grateful.
far more grateful am I for the spiritual teaching to love, to forgive, to curb my tongue, and cease my criticism.
Through reading the textbook I learned that God has given us strength to do all we have to do, and that it is the things we do not have to do (the envying, strife, emulating, vainglorying, and so on) that leave in their wake fatigue and discord.
For fifteen years I had used tobacco, both chewing and smoking; for ten years I had been a victim of the drink habit, sometimes to excess; I was also addicted to profanity. Christian Science removed these appetites.
Fear has also been overcome in many ways.
One day, however, the mental conflict was so great I commenced reading in the hope of obtaining peace.
In Mrs. Eddy's book I came across a great deal of thought that was not readily understood at the first reading, but by continued and careful study, and a good deal of help from my knowledge of chemistry and natural philosophy, I soon shook off the belief of sensation in matter,--the so-called elementary substance.
2010
I began to demonstrate over my physical and mental condition, and as soon as the fear and pain began to leave me I felt encouraged to go on.
From the time the healing came into my consciousness, the desire for material remedies left me, because Christian Science at once pointed out the way to get at the cause of discord and disease. All that I had to give up were the false beliefs of mortal mind.
I was not so easily influenced by other people's shortcomings, when I learned that evil has neither personality nor place. I was not so ready to take offence, when I found out the way to work unselfishly for the upbuilding of the Cause.
Through reading Science and Health and the illumination which followed, I was healed
There have been some mighty struggles with error, and I have learned that we cannot reach heaven with one long stride or easily drift inside the gate, but that the "asking" and
the "seeking" and the "knocking" must be earnest and persistent.
I had been a Bible student for twenty-eight years, but when I commenced reading Science and Health with the Bible I was healed in less than a week.
My gratitude is endless and can be best expressed by striving mightily to walk in the path our Leader has so lovingly shown us in Science and Health.
I found out that one Mind is the only medicine, and then I was freed from the suffering.
I am glad to say, I am quite free from all those material laws and go out in all sorts of weather.--