Testimony of Healing November 29, 1900 Issue

How I became a Christian Scientist

Sarah Gilbert Schuyler

Up to eighteen months ago I was a very worldly selfish woman, living for very little but self and my own pleasure. Owing to financial troubles, and one disappointment after another, I was most unhappy and discontented. I also suffered from chronic indigestion, which medicine could not reach, although I had doctored for years. My nerves had gotten into such a condition that I could hardly speak without crying, and I had become tired of every one and every thing.

This was the condition I was in when Christian Science came to me one year ago last June, through a dear, loving friend, who had for some time been trying to open my eyes to the omnipotence of God. Up to this time I was not ready for the Truth and would not listen to that still, small voice which has proven such a blessing to mankind. I thought I could get along without God. I had to undergo a great deal of suffering, both mental and physical, before my eyes were opened, and I was made to see how selfish and ungrateful I had been all my life.

A year ago last June my friend came out to the suburban town where I then resided to spend the summer, and shortly after this invited me to attend a little gathering of Christian Scientists who were holding meetings once a week, to study the Bible lesson, in the Christian Science Quarterly. I thought I would not go, but changed my mind, and every moment of life since have I thanked God for the joy, peace, and happiness that have come into my life and into my home. I shall never forget that first little meeting, the earnestness and sincerity of those dear people when they bowed their heads in the most impressive prayer (our silent prayer) that I had ever known. From that moment the light came to me. I caught a glimpse of the understanding. I became a Christian Scientist. All the worry, troubles, discontent, unhappiness, and physical troubles, dropped from me. The indigestion entirely disappeared, and I have never had an attack since. I commenced to study our text-book, Science and Health. I procured all the Christian Science literature, and have read little or nothing else since. I found that, coming into my right mind, made me hunger and thirst after righteousness, and also brought me into a true sense of what happiness is. My husband, seeing the decided change in me, became interested, and together we, in December last, received class instruction, and are both members of a branch church in New York City and of the Mother Church in Boston.

In June last it was our privilege to attend the Communion service at the Mother Church. We also had the great happiness of visiting Concord and seeing our dear Leader. The past year has brought us many blessings, so many, that it would take too much space in the Sentinel to tell of all that this wonderful Truth has done for me and mine. We have dedicated our lives to God, praying for that "Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus." We are striving to be loyal to God, to our Leader, and to mankind, and worthy of the name of Christian Scientists.—Sarah Gilbert Schuyler, New York, N. Y.

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