Testimony of Healing June 19, 1902 Issue

I went from my home in Maine to a western state to...

B. M.

I went from my home in Maine to a western state to study medicine with a physician who was called very successful. Circumstances had made me feel that I was a useless member of society, and I had no interest in life except the desire to be of use to others. I had been a church member and worker for ten years, but each year I grew more and more unsatisfied with my work, as I could see so little result. The Bible grew so hard for me to understand that I closed it and laid it away for weeks at a time. Yet I was searching for something I could really believe; I hoped for many things but I really believed very few, so I read orthodoxy and heterodoxy, Spiritualism and theosophy, Emerson and Darwin, etc. I found good people in every belief and I fearlessly investigated everything that came my way. I was all ready to attend a Christian Science service when asked to do so by my cousin whom I was to visit a few weeks before beginning my study of medicine.

Heartsick, sad, weary of living, starving for spiritual food, the service fed me with the Bread of Life. Tears filled my eyes when I heard the spiritual interpretation of "Give us this day our daily bread," and a prayer of gratitude went up to God that I had been led to that place. During the week I read Judge Ewing's lecture, believing and seemingly understanding every word, and began to read Science and Health. By the next Sunday I was sure Christian Science was that for which I had traveled so far.

When I finished reading Science and Health, several diseases which I had had for years, and always expected to have, had vanished, among them corns and bunions, which had been very troublesome to me in days before, but have never troubled me since.

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