Testimony of Healing January 27, 1906 Issue

It is a little over eight years since Christian Science...

Margaret Stokes Patton

It is a little over eight years since Christian Science came into my life. I was a partial invalid at the time, suffering from nervous prostration caused by selfishly brooding over a loss that I had had several years before. I had just undergone an operation, which had resulted in most painful complication that the physicians did not seem able to relieve. I had given up my home, and had gone to be with a friend who was a Christian Scientist, and when I could stand the suffering no longer I turned to Christian Science for help. At that time I was on a milk diet, and weighed one hundred pounds. A practitioner was called, and the words of Truth she spoke to me during that first treatment were the words which practically set me free,—lifted me above my supposed self and suffering. I shall never forget the uplifted, hopeful state of mind in which she left me, and although I had struggles afterwards with the sense of pain. I never went back into the darkness and despondency in which I had been before that first treatment. I at once commenced the study of Science and Health and it has been my comfort and help ever since.

My husband began the study of the book at the same time, and together we have come into a new sense of Life, Love, and Truth. I had almost passed out with kidney trouble at the birth of my little girl, six years before. Three years after coming into this Science I had a child born with only the help of a Christian Science nurse and the practitioner. The demonstration was a wonderful one. The child lived and was perfectly well and strong. I have always felt so grateful that in this trial hour I had not one desire to go back to the doctors, but felt that if Christian Science could not save me nothing could. The fear of the kidney disease was not destroyed, however, and when two years later I found that I must pass through that experience again. I was almost overcome with fear; but that was met at once and during the entire time I was perfectly harmonious and free from any manifestation of the disease.

I owe all I have and am to Christian Science, and for the help it has given me I feel deeply grateful to Mrs. Eddy. It has made our home life one of unity, love, and peace by realizing the ever-presence of the one Mind—God.—Margaret Stokes Patton, Pittsburg, Pa.

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