Testimony of Healing November 2, 1907 Issue

I feel impelled by gratitude to give a short testimony...

Florence E. Dennis

I feel impelled by gratitude to give a short testimony concerning my release from the bondage of mortal thought through the teachings of Christian Science. Although I have experienced much better health since my earnest and unwavering hope took root about three years ago, I was not drawn to the study of Science because of health restored or physical benefits received. I had become disheartened and despondent because of past bitter experiences, the remembrance of which seemed unbearable, and from which I found no relief, although I had been a member in good standing of an orthodox church for many years. When my last near relative passed away, leaving me alone so far as human ties are concerned, I felt that my own death was the only desirable termination of a sad and unhappy life. Whenever I read or heard of what seemed to be an untimely death, or that of one to whom life had been sweet, my first thought was of regret because I could not have slipped away in that one's stead. I never charged God with my apparent infelicity, but I could not understand why I should have been placed in a world where to me happiness seemed unattainable, and from which I saw no means of honorable escape. I had heard of Christian Science several years before, but the favorable impression I gained of it had lain dormant in my thought until every other hope had died out. In this frame of mortal mind I again turned to it for help and found it. I did not come into the understanding with leaps and bounds as some do. My progress has sometimes been very slow but it has been steady and sure, and I can now truly say that the way grows brighter and brighter unto the perfect day. I had been tolerably familiar with the phraseology of the Bible since my childhood, but it was only the language and not the spirit that I understood. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" has made it comprehensible and of increasing interest, in the light thrown on it by Mrs. Eddy's clear insight into its meaning.

I am very grateful indeed to our beloved and honored Leader for the teaching of Christian Science, which has helped me in my pitiful failures and questionings in search for light. It has not been all in vain, for the good seed has taken root and is growing and will blossom into that beautiful consciousness which I now realize is man's birthright that the world can neither give nor take away. The true idea is the image and likeness of the Mind from which it emanates. That I may realize this vision is my daily hope and prayer.—Florence E. Dennis, Chicago, Ill.

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