Testimony of Healing September 3, 1904 Issue

For nearly seven years I have had the benefits of Christian Science,...

M. B. M.

For nearly seven years I have had the benefits of Christian Science, not the least of which has come to me through our periodicals. To-night, as I read the Sentinel with deepest pleasure and profit, I felt that I could no longer be satisfied with receiving, but must do my part in the generous outpouring of gratitude and of love of God and to our revered Leader.

My way into Christian Science was a thorny one. Barriers of prejudice and misconceptions manifold kept me from reaching my home and claiming my rightful inheritance. During many years I had known of this new-old religious thought, for one of our family had studied it, and Science and Health was on our bookshelves. But "something better than Science" was presented to this relative,—a something that left Mrs. Eddy out of the proposition, and made the human mind and will mighty factors in the solution of life's problem. Science and Health was taken out occasionally to point a jest or to be criticised and condemned as absurd and impossible. Whether this thought was likely to produce and joy in our family may be imagined. My own condition at that time sufficiently indicated the result of living in such a mental atmosphere. I was suffering from chronic asthma, and had tried every remedy I had ever heard of, with no permanent relief. No physician gave me the slightest hope of cure. I spent sixteen months on the Continent, and wherever other people seemed to find immunity from this disease. I was always worse. Annual attacks of rose-cold added to my misery.

I had been wearing glasses for six years because of a severe case of astigmatism. I also had a most distressing functional difficulty, which the doctors told me might possibly be helped by means of an operation. No material remedies succeeded in alleviating the intense suffering from that source. I was nervous, unhappy, without any faith in God. During attacks of asthma, when I was often obliged to sit up all night long and breathing was so painful as to bring anguish, I longed with all my heart to die.

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