Testimony of Healing October 1, 1904 Issue

It has only been six months since I came into Christian Science,...

Martha M. Goddis

It has only been six months since I came into Christian Science, but in that time my life has taken such an entirely different direction that I feel strongly the desire to tell others about it, I did not come to the light through physical healing. The light came to me when it seemed as if every other avenue were cut off. I had just finished my college course, which had been obtained at the expenditure of great effort and not a little sacrifice; but before I was through my senior year I realized that I had not gotten out of my college experience what I had hoped might come. My life seemed just as barren, and happiness seemed farther away than when I entered. I was unhappy and discontented. Nothing that I had planned seemed likely to come to pass.

When I first heard of Christian Science it struck me as worse than foolish, — as hopelessly transcendental. I did not know what it was that I wanted, I only knew that, whatever it was, I did not have it. Then sorrow came to me and every promise of happiness was suddenly swept out of my reach and I was left stranded on the desolate sands of the utter failure of all my human endeavor. Then, through a faithful friend, the light was brought to me, and I followed it, largely because it was the only visible issue out of the darkness that had settled about me.

To-day, my life is a very different one. Contentment has taken the place of unrest, and faith has displaced distrust. I have had many demonstrations of the surety of my hope in the healing of sickness since then. A very sore finger that had every indication of blood-poisoning was overcome in a night. One experience in particular stands out very clearly. I was suffering from a backache that had, for years, invariably appeared whenever I sewed on a machine. I had planned to attend Judge Hanna's lecture, but concluded in the afternoon that I did not feel equal to the trip across the bay to San Francisco. I, however, finally decided to go in spite of the fact that I felt no better. During the first part of the lecture I found it difficult to follow the words of the speaker, because of my own discomfort. But when the Judge began to repeat the 91st psalm, my pain dropped from me as gently and completely as if it had been a discarded garment, and it has never returned.

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