Testimony of Healing November 1, 1900 Issue

Saved from Despair

Nellie B. Hoyt

Only three short months ago I was a scoffer at Christian Science with a profound pity for those deluded souls who believed that it was demonstrable. I found myself at that time engulfed in despair, with no faith or hope to cling to, and longing for death to release me from a life out of which all sweetness and fragrance had vanished. Under those circumstances, without a scintilla of faith that Christian Science could reach my case, I, like many others, turned my weary gaze toward it and found in it rest, comfort, and peace, as in the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," is a priceless book, explaining, clearly and logically, all the problems of life. It quickens our understanding and reveals our kinship with God and Jesus Christ. Where we have seen as through a glass darkly, the clouds of mysticism and unbelief are rolled away and we stand face to face with new and beautiful truths. It brings a calm and holy peace to sorrowing hearts; it levels all rank, and in its effulgent rays we see in every man a brother. When we shall have entered into a full understanding of it we shall as heirs of God appropriate to ourselves from His wonderful and inexhaustible storehouses all that we need to make our lives one glad, sweet song.

To follow in the footsteps of our Master means work. There must be no sluggards, for the harvest is ready and there is work for all,—a daily taking up of the cross; but when we have found the true Way the burden will be light and the yoke easy. God's love belts the universe, and a glance toward the coming years gilds my belief that love for God and our neighbor will be mightier than modern artillery in settling international questions, that nation will no longerwar against nation, and that credit for such beneficent results will be largely due to Christian Science.—Nellie B. Hoyt, Georgetown, Mass.

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