Testimony of Healing October 30, 1920 Issue

Constant reminders of my abundant blessings, and of the...

Alice L. Dustin with contributions from G. W. Dustin, Jr.

Constant reminders of my abundant blessings, and of the bondage of ill health and wrong thinking that have yielded to the liberty of even a partial understanding of the unlimited truth as taught and lived by our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, impels me to express gratitude for my healing, which will be indeed a small portion of my debt to divine Love for the knowledge of my true birthright.

As a very young girl I had fallen in with companions of discreditable conduct, and a young boy who was raised in a family with an understanding of Christian Science so pointed out the folly of my way and gently led me to see the wisdom of good thoughts, that I became a Sunday school student. Many beautiful healings resulted. Later my mother became interested and has ever since remained tried and true. Those early steps have ever remained dear to me in hours of darkness, and the Sunday school work an ever shining light through the clouds. After four years, and while yet a very young girl, I turned from all the many reminders of Truth's sustaining power, and, in another city, placed myself under the care of medical men. Let me give all credit possible to them, for they did all they could for my betterment, yet under their care I became more dependent upon medicine and even submitted to an operation. I was restless, always looking for some new form of entertainment, or excitement, until I was finally driven into a corner. That corner proved to be the best place I had been in for fourteen years, for it made me wake up.

During these years I had more or less closed my eyes to Christian Science and it grew very dark, mentally and physically, so dark that the best oculists were able to benefit me but little by the use of glasses; little by little I was preparing myself for total blindness, counting my steps everywhere, so that when that which I feared came upon me I could continue with my daily tasks, by count. For months some one else had to do all my reading and writing, and added to this was a multitude of other ailments, and I was alone in the world with two very young children.

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