Article June 28, 1900 Issue

Why I am a Scientist

BY NOLA MOLTKE ORGAIN

Being a child of a Methodist minister and a Methodist mother, one brother a Methodist Evangelist, four others and two sisters, pillars in the Methodist Church, and having borne the stigma of being the "black sheep" of the family on account of never having professed religion, I tried conscientiously to embrace orthodoxy, but failing to find satisfaction, I turned to Spiritualism. After studying it for several years, and finding nothing tangible in it upon which to centre my faith and hopes, after investigating many other dogmas and isms, I was what would be termed an Agnostic, doubting the existence of a God, heaven, or hell.

In the mean time, I became an invalid, suffering untold agonies from a complication of troubles; among them were muscular rheumatism, of eighteen months' standing,—a legacy of the grip,—female diseases, kidney disease, eczema, sciatica, and, as the last straw which broke the camel's back, I was seized by an attack of acute neuralgia. Having exhausted the skill of materia medica, and having gone to health resorts without receiving any benefit, I felt like a ship at sea, without rudder, chart, or compass, drifting aimlessly,—lonely beyond description, without one to guide me, when I floated into the arms of one who opened my eyes to Christian Science. Screaming at every move, unable to sleep or let others sleep, I turned to her in my distress, and she, in loving kindness, through her understanding of God, treated me for this trouble. After one treatment, I awoke the following morning and found that I could throw myself from one side of the bed to the other without an ache or a pain. It was with awe and reverence that I realized that some unseen and, to me, unknown, Power had healed me.

I began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" determined to understand the true source of my healing, knowing that the Scientists had a knowledge that I did not possess. After studying diligently the light dawned; gradually my eyes were opened to the grandeur, the sublimity of that peace and rest; my troubles were all gone; fears all subsided; disease had vanished. I had found God, my friend, mother, father, sister, and brother all in one. I have been able to overcome the mortal mind beliefs that manifest themselves in a family of seven, besides many troubles of my friends. I have been healed and made "every whit whole." I now know there is a God, and that He is Life, Truth, and Love, and that I am His immortal child; and that if we obey the Bible admonition, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness," we shall realize the promise that all else will be added—health, spiritual understanding, harmony, life, and love—remembering at all times that "God is All-in-all, and there is none else."

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