Testimony of Healing August 2, 1900 Issue

How I was Awakened to the Truth

Katey M. Smith

So many tell of healing that I shall tell of my awakening into this glorious day, and how Truth found me in my need. I had heard vaguely of Christian Science through a cousin who had been healed and was living in Chicago, but I knew nothing of it. When I was starting out with a camping party a gentleman said to me, "You look very badly; if I were your mother I would not let you go." From this trip I was brought home on a stretcher. After recovering, I was so long in gaining strength that I decided to go to Chicago to this cousin. A friend said to me, "What will you do about Christian Science? I'll wager you will be one." I replied, "You know me and say that! You are a Presbyterian and I've visited your sister for weeks and weeks, and never became one."

In my room in Chicago were piled many Journals, which I surreptitiously removed. The subject was never mentioned to me, which really aroused interest and curiosity One day I went to call upon a friend. While there a Scientist came in; they talked a few minutes, mentioning the Scientific interpretation of the word Trinity. I said nothing, but the Truth was making itself felt.

When I went home I said to my friend, "I heard my cousin say they were going to move into the Auditorium to-morrow, and I shall stay here and go without their knowing anything about it at the house." I went, and I thank God for finding me, a lost or strayed sheep. I am now a member of the Mother Church. After returning home it seemed right that I should play the organ in an Episcopal church, which I did from Christmas till Easter, and I knew that I was to be a Scientist and nothing else. Even though from that time until now I and one other have stood the only Scientists in a town of twenty-five thousand, I have never regretted my change of thought.

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