Testimony of Healing October 4, 1900 Issue

Found Happiness in Christian Science

L. P. M.

My father was an independent thinker and prided himself on being unbiased, unhampered, and free in his thought, hence I knew no religious training and grew to young womanhood questioning always any religions presented to me, seeing no mercy or justice in a God who could permit poverty and misery and joyless lives, such as I saw and read of.

More especially was I set apart from any church by the oft-repeated statement that only those who accepted Jesus Christ could be saved and this earth-life was all the chance any one had to accept or reject. To me this seemed outrageous, as I knew hundreds were born every day to conditions which blotted out, at the very outset, any probable growth toward virtue and a state of mind where acceptance, or even knowledge, of Jesus Christ was possible.

So I went on attending one church after another, but deaf to all their teachings and with an untouched heart, and yet always with an undercurrent of longing to find something that would lead me out of the bondage to a wilful, impulsive, pleasure-loving temperament, into the thought that built up the strength and beauty of character I admired always in others. So I journeyed on in sense; married young; had three children; lost my husband when I was only twenty-six, and was then thirty-five hundred miles away from all my relations and my husband's, in a home I loved so well I did not want to leave it.

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