Testimony of Healing July 29, 1905 Issue

Fifteen or sixteen years ago, when "other helpers" failed,...

Nannie B. Jaynes

Fifteen or sixteen years ago, when "other helpers" failed, the "Help of the helpless" came to "abide" with me through Christian Science. I was led to a Christian Scientist of Indianapolis to ask for help, and was lifted above the desire for material aid. After the first prayer of the Scientist I went home and threw away my last bottle of medicine, which a short time before had been purchased with my last penny. Need I state that I did not and could not find peace and rest in the way that I was looking for it, but he that seeketh in Truth's way findeth. After three weeks' visits to the Scientist, I was much benefited, and after thorough and careful study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, my desire was to help others.

Before having class instruction I had a great desire to have a copy of Science and Health of my own. Not having the money to purchase one, I gathered together what had once seemed a treasure to me,—a small library,—with my school books. I took them to a second-hand book store, and received for them just enough to get a copy of Science and Health. I think I had not read it through when I found I was no longer in bondage to a severe pain in my back, which, with many other ailments, had troubled me much. Thus I was led to know, first through suffering, then through the teaching and practice of Christian Science, that in Spirit, not in matter, is our help.

Shall we ever cease to give thanks to God, or cease to love and follow the one whom He has chosen to lead us from sense to Soul?—Nannie B. Jaynes, La Fayette, Ind.

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