Testimony of Healing November 10, 1906 Issue

Among the many blessings which have come to me...

Mary King Sumner

Among the many blessings which have come to me through Christian Science, the greatest is a growing realization that God is a loving Father, an ever-present reality; not an unknown and unknowable being, of whom I avoided thinking and was half afraid. This realization, that God is good, and that He made and keeps man in His image and likeness, has healed me of a moody, unhappy disposition, supposedly inherited, which had produced a discordant physical condition. "The blues," formerly a frequent companion, I have learned in Christian Science to recognize as "selfishness" and "self-pity;" and with that sense of the truth came also, through our text-book, the understanding how to destroy this false condition. By patiently striving to learn more of God and our relation to Him and to each other, I am gaining true joy, peace, and health.

Last year several very painful growths appeared on my hands, and as I failed to help myself, I went to a practitioner. She immediately pointed out a very strong sense of self-righteousness which I was holding, told me how to overcome it, and said that she would help me. After a few treatments the growths disappeared, leaving no scar; and criticism and self-justification gave place to love and humility.

I thank God that we are learning to know the truth which makes us free from sin and sickness; and grateful love goes out to Mrs. Eddy, His Messenger to this age, through whose untiring labors we are able to understand and prove this truth.—Mary King Sumner, Washington, D. C.

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