Testimony of Healing October 8, 1904 Issue

It is with joy unspeakable, that I look back over the...

Virginia I. Brown

It is with joy unspeakable, that I look back over the years of my life, and mark the experiences that were preparing me for the reception of Christian Science.

I belonged to an orthodox church, and I was as good a member as I knew how to be, yet when the stern realities of mortal existence faced me, I found that I was leaning on a broken reed. My prayers were not answered, and I began to question a religion that I could not prove.

I resented and repudiated the doctrine of atonement as I had been taught it, and when I stood before my infant class, and showed them a picture of Jesus on the cross, and looked into their trustful eyes, I could not teach them that a God of love sent His son that he should be thus crucified to save us. I said to myself, "I'll stop right here. I'll never teach that again." I knew it was not true, and yet I knew not where or how to get at the truth.

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