Testimony of Healing April 15, 1905 Issue

I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude for Christian Science...

Helen S. Byrne

I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude for Christian Science and for all the blessings it has brought into my life, — for the spiritual sense and consciousness of man's oneness with God. When first I heard Christian Science mentioned, — being at the time a traveler in England, — I did not think further about it, as I was deeply immersed in medical and surgical theories. My husband was a physician, and both before my marriage and after he died I was engaged in hospital nursing. Upon my return to Brisbane, I heard the Christian Science text-book named, and was advised to have no other work on this subject. About nine months later, when in charge of a small private hospital in the South, feeling utterly worn out by the heat of the summer, and suffering from various ills, constant headaches and depression, the desire to know what Christian Science is came to me, and upon making inquiries, I found where "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, could be purchased. I was supplied with a copy, and when I started to read the book, although very far from understanding it, I just wished to be left alone with it for about a week; but as this could not be, I "devoured" it every spare moment. I felt really hungry for truth.

I never thought of being healed, but the healing truth was at work. My ailments were forgotten, and also the drugs, tonics, and stimulants which up to this time had been deemed so absolutely necessary. I seemed to wake up and to know I was free. It did not take very long for me to come face to face with the fact that truth and materia medica could not mix, and that I must take my stand for this truth. I was impossible to be honest and keep my position. I had been considered a successful nurse, and had been previously offered a very important post in a well-known hospital. I decided for truth, and in a few months' time I was able to leave the hospital. Since then, nearly five years ago, I have given my whole time to the grand work of Christian Science. I was brought up in an orthodox church and tried faithfully to follow its teachings, but I felt a want, a something, I did not know what, so I went from church to church, from cathedral to cathe dral, looking for this something. I entered grand, massive buildings, heard solemn, impressive, and perfect music and singing, yet always left with the sense of a lack, a void. It was my privilege to go to Boston, and upon attending the first morning service in The Mother Church, I found that for which I had been searching for years, and I recognized that something to be divine Love. Words cannot express what joy and peace came to me when the large congregation sang from the heart our Leader's hymn, "Shepherd, show me how to go," and I knew the Shepherd had shown me the right way.

It is with a sense of deep thankfulness to God for the wonderful gift of Christian Science, through our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, that I wish to add my testimony to that of thousands of others to the healing power of Christ, Truth, and to the practicability of Christian Science when applied to every detail of our daily life. It is indeed an "ever-present help." My gratitude and love to Mrs. Eddy for her life of selflessness, her wisdom and patience, expressed in and through so many ways, and for her great love for all mankind, will be best expressed by striving to live the truth which has been revealed through her.

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