Testimony of Healing April 29, 1911 Issue

When Christian Science found me I was the anxious,...

Margaret Wilson

When Christian Science found me I was the anxious, discouraged mother of six young children, and it is the realization of how foreign the above mental qualities are to me today that impels me to "praise God from whom all blessings flow," and to tell about it, in the hope that it may interest some other mother who seems heartsick and weary as I used to be.

We were an exceptionally healthy family, and my greatest need was a spiritual one. I wanted to follow the teachings of my youth, but it was as if I kept crying for bread and was given a stone. My ideal of motherhood was of one who knew naught of anger or impatience, and breathed only love and compassion amid all the seeming trials incident to the care of small children; but my understanding of God then, together with my daily pleadings, did not seem to destroy one atom of impatience, nor add aught of love, and each year seemed to leave me more fearful and doubtful than it found me.

I now know that I had never in all those years called on "the only living and true God," and that was why my prayers remained unanswered. So-called mental science buoyed me up for a short time, but left me almost hopeless of ever being able to attain in ever so small a degree to my ideal, which through the darkest hours ever stood out in such contrast to my daily life. I was a sore disappointment to myself, and felt that as these dear little ones grew up, I would also be to them; and this thought at times seemed to crush me.

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