Testimony of Healing January 10, 1901 Issue

Earnest Longings Satisfied

Mary B. Powell

In the summer of 1894 I went through a class in Christian Science with one of Mrs. Eddy's loyal students. The winter previous to this I had spent in Brooklyn, N. Y., at school and every letter I received from my mother had something about Christian Science in it,—that it had healed her of troubles of several years' standing, and that she wanted me to investigate it. However, I did not investigate it until I came home the next summer. I did not understand what it was and did not care very much then. But from the time I began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" there was not an opposing thought in my consciousness, but on the contrary it appealed to me in the strongest possible manner, satisfying a longing I had always felt from the time I can first remember, for something else, something higher and better, and revealing the ideal as the real.

I had always felt a separateness from things and people could not enjoy games like other children, and was unhappy though from no definable cause. This Christian Science did away with, revealing to me "that Mind which was also in Christ Jesus."

Many physical ills have been overcome. I have felt the beneficent influence of this Truth in every line of action, and am striving to live so as to be worthy the name of a Christian Scientist.

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