Testimony of Healing May 6, 1905 Issue

When Christian Science first found me, four years ago,...

Mary G. Rennie

When Christian Science first found me, four years ago, I think it would have been hard to find a more unhealthy, unhappy, and discordant person. I was suffering from a severe form of hereditary scrofula. The conditions were such that every organ in my body seemed to be affected, and for ten years I never knew a perfectly well day. I had been treated at different times by materia medica for catarrh, kidney trouble, stomach trouble, and at last the disease manifested itself as consumption of the lungs. I had tried all sorts of material mixtures and blood medicines, yet steadily grew worse, until I lost all faith in doctors and drugs, and was practically without hope or God in the world.

About this time I first heard of Christian Science through a neighbor, and borrowed a copy of Science and Health. How grateful I am for the gift of perception, that made me see at once that this wonderful book contained God's truth and nothing else; and what a change came over my consciousness when I realized that God, good, was not the author of evil, sin, sickness, and death, but the author of good only. I saw what Habakkuk meant when he said, that God is "of purer eyes than to behold evil," and I also saw that the Principle revealed in Science and Health is perfect, and that if I applied correctly the truth therein taught, no power on earth could prevent me from getting the full benefit. Every spare minute was given to reading, and it was not long before one ailment after another began to disappear, In about four weeks' time I laid aside glasses which I had worn for eight years, and have never had the slightest use for them since. Chronic constipation disappeared about the same time, and in less than four months all sense of soreness left my lungs. The belief in this disease was so deep-rooted, however, that it persistently tried to manifest itself in some other form, yet I worked on, full of hope and good courage, knowing that God, good, is the only power, and sooner or later truth would prevail.

To-day, after four years' faithful study of Science and Health, I can say it has made me a happy, healthy woman, I give loving thanks to God, and to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, who goes before us and opens the way.

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