Testimony of Healing December 11, 1909 Issue

I wish to tell as simply as I can of the heavenly light...

Fannie Sloane Towle

I wish to tell as simply as I can of the heavenly light that has come into my life from one year's study of Mrs. Eddy's "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." I had wanted to do right, to follow Christ all of my life, but I now know that error was present most of the time for many years. Still, I knew that some day God would satisfy my hunger after righteousness, so I drifted on, not knowing how to serve Him until I was led "into the land of Christian Science, where fetters fall and the rights of man are fully known and acknowledged" (Science and Health, p. 226). Do I love the hand that led me? Could I love God, the Giver of all good, and not love her who says. "Follow your Leader only so far as she follows Christ"? The long black night of doubt and fear is ended, I know I have found my guide.

After the birth of my second child, I struggled for almost two years with distressing illness, trying to shake off the fear of hereditary tubercular disease by taking medicine continually, only to be pulled down again after every seeming uplift. My physicians were the best in the drug line, and good men, too. All of my life I had suffered from a bowel trouble and the disorders resulting therefrom. I had one operation, three and a half years ago, and was considering another when Christian Science found me. After one week's treatment I knew that it was God's power manifested, and the great truth of His perfect creation began to dawn upon me. I prayed then, if this truth was for me, that the desire to study would be given, and the answer came.

I was and am happier in studying Christian Science than in doing anything else, and I have studied every day this year. I have not realized perfect harmony every day, for old errors seemed to have a firm hold on me; but divine Principle is showing me how to forsake my sins, and slowly but surely I know I am overcoming evil with good. My greatest joy is in anticipating that day when divine sense shall bid every shadow flee. I realize that I must bring every thought into captivity to Christ. Thoughts of subtle sins often seem to glide serpentlike into my consciousness, before I know it, and then evil seems to say, "I am power;" but as soon as I realize the falsity of error, by close, earnest, honest study of the Bible and Science and Health I can distinguish the wheat from the tares.

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