Testimony of Healing August 23, 1900 Issue

Found God a Present Help

E. H. Gilkey

I do not presume to have a message for those of ripe experience in Christian Science, nor for those who, from their hard-won citadels of Truth are directing the battle against the errors of mortal mind. I think of those countless thousands of well-meaning men and women who are struggling to-day as I was struggling a year ago, surrounded by an environment of prejudice and ignorance of the Truth, which is the unknown barrier between them and present happiness. To such as these, I long to say in words of soberness and truth, "Ho, every one that thirsteth, (and who does not?) come ye to the waters, come ye to Christian Science, and drink of the water of life."

I have been benefited in every way by the acceptance of the teachings of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy; and, in common with thousands of others, I desire to testify to a deeper sense of gratitude to her—to this benefactor whom I have never seen—than to any other human being with whose life my own has been brought into spiritual contact.

I would say to all who will hearken to a word spoken in solemn truth, I have found that which enables me to know that "God is a present help in trouble." And by the word "trouble" is meant every one of those ills which form the daily burdens of humanity,—sin, sickness, worry, debt, poverty, lack of opportunity, lack of employment. Bearing in mind two texts of Holy Scripture, and keeping before one the written messages of Mary Baker Eddy as found in Science and Health and "Miscellaneous Writings," one has what seems to my experience to be an unfailing guide to all needful success. The two texts to which I refer, and which Science teaches us to understand in a spiritual but practical manner, are these:—

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