Article August 9, 1900 Issue

Christian Science is Practical

BY CARRIE B. WOLCOTT.

There came a time in my life when materia medica had failed, and I had little to look forward to. I had never been strong from childhood, and while I believed and earnestly endeavored to live the teachings of Jesus, I did not know that they afforded relief from sickness, and in my efforts to help others I felt myself losing health and strength. At this time Christian Science was brought to my notice, and I was persuaded to take treatment. At once hope was awakened, and I began to feel that I should be restored to health, for I felt the healing was of God—divine Love made manifest. In my case the healing was a steady growth in the right direction until the work was complete. I was helped and encouraged to press forward in this new—old way of God's appointing by discerning at the outset that Christian Science was an exact science, as much so as the science of mathematics. That understood, it furnished the rule for the solution of all human problems. I saw that it would meet every human need.

There were many problems that I wanted solved, and often as I read the book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the desire was with me to understand the Truth it contained, so that I might apply it to some particular need, and as I read one thought after another would be made plain to me, and the problem be solved.

At first, I hoped to be able to use this Truth only after years of study, but I found that the Truth understood was at once available, and my joy knew no bounds. Claims of sickness and of sin vanished before the application of the first simple rules that I discerned in Christian Science. In the endeavor to understand and demonstrate Christian Science, the more I felt alone with the book, in the confidence that God was with me and would help me, looking neither to the right nor to the left, but with a patient waiting for Truth's appearing in my thought, the more my understanding opened; and the proof to me that I was right came from the practical results in the destruction of sin and sickness.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Testimony of Healing

A Testimony from England