Testimony of Healing April 11, 1908 Issue

The moral healing and regenerating power of Christian Science...

Ethelyn A. Gill

The moral healing and regenerating power of Christian Science has always held a special interest for me, as a reader of testimonies in our splendid periodicals, and feeling that there may be those who would likewise be en

couraged by a testimony of such a nature, I wish to tell them how I have been healed and blessed both morally and mentally. I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing, but it found me with very perverted notions of life, engendered by an almost entirely materialistic education, gathered from contact with and the study and atmosphere of material medicine. The loftier impulse which at first impelled me to take up this line of education, the desire to help others in need, was soon submerged by the materialism of my thought, and nourished by the atmosphere of hospital and sick-room. All views of life and the important questions pertaining thereto were lacking in true moral tone, through false reasoning, and thus I drifted along, not daring to look in the face the sense of life I was entertaining. All this time I had tried to hold on to a misty, hazy thought of God, and at one period, when hungering for a more spiritual sense of life, I became a member of an orthodox church in the hope of finding a spiritual school where I might learn of higher things than those pertaining only to the physical. But less than six months later I found that the teaching of this church could not satisfy me, and then, in my disappointment, I turned entirely away from all thought of God, stopped praying, accepted and lived in the material entirely, enjoying for a time the companionship of unbelievers, "the blind leading the blind."

Needless to say to the dissatisfied ones suffering from just such mental conditions, that happiness and peace were not long my guests, and the logic of events finally awakened me through great mental agony to the awful mistake of believing that life is material, and that happiness can be ours while thus believing. In that hour of woe, too deep for words, I turned, and in desperation and doubt cried out, kneeling by my bed one night, "If there is a God, will He not show me the way?" With the utterance of that prayer there dawned upon me calm and peace, and the speedy answer from our great loving Father came early next morning in a desire to read Science and Health, a copy of which had lain at my hand for more than a year in the home where I lived, but which I had never opened, so engrossed with worldly interests was my time and thought, even in a literary way. From that day on, however, it has been my daily companion, and for ten years it has continued to comfort, to sustain and guide me "all the rugged way" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 398). It has purified my thought, it has enabled me to help others as I once dreamed I should like to do, and has shown me the path to the upbuilding of a Christlike character, "a house not made with hands."

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