Testimony of Healing January 14, 1905 ISSUE

From childhood, there was nothing I desired or loved...

Magdalena Howser with contributions from Louis H. Jennings

From childhood, there was nothing I desired or loved more than honesty, and this desire followed me through a long struggle with poverty. The test of my desire for honesty came. A nice country home and seemingly all we possessed was swept away through the destruction of crops, hog cholera, bail money, and the dishonesty of a fellow-man. This loss was nothing compared to the debts that were added to the burden. I was charged with dishonesty by the creditors, who would come to my home and declare I had money hid when I had none.

Science and Health was then handed to me. I was a church member, and my sense of honesty to my fellow-man caused me to carry Science literature to the pastor of said church. For two years I did so, hoping to have him either acknowledge the good or else condemn the evil in it. He did neither, but instead denounced it from the pulpit. This so wounded me that I could no longer attend church. Ambitious as my husband was, every undertaking was a defeat. My great aim was to give my children as good an education as our city afforded. In order to accomplish this, I kept boarders, sewed, and did any kind of work I could, but one thing followed another, until we were reduced to extreme poverty.

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