Testimony of Healing September 4, 1909 Issue

Many times I have been on the point of sending a few...

Mary Louise Smith

Many times I have been on the point of sending a few words to our Sentinel, with the hope that my experience might help some other weary one through the discouragement, discontent, unhappiness, and darkness of unbelief through which I passed before knowing of the blessed truth of Christian Science. Surely I have reason to rise up and call our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, "blessed," but it is because words seem so inadequate to express what I feel, that I have kept silent so long.

It is just five years since I began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. This book had been loaned me by a friend, as at that time I thought I never could spend the money needed for a copy, now I know that if I could not get another, no amount of money could buy mine. Fifteen years ago I started out to earn my own living. I felt that six days of the week were enough in which to perform my duty, and the seventh I could not give to anything so unprofitable as going to church—for to me it seemed unprofitable; consequently, for ten years I was scarcely inside a church, although up to that time I had been a regular attendant—I suppose because I had been brought up to go and to feel that it was the proper thing to do; but as for any practical help, there was none.

Ten years ago my home was burned to the ground, and my Bible was lost along with all my other personal belongings. From that time until I began to study Christian Science, I neither owned a Bible nor looked into one. It seemed as though the more I tried to do my duty, the harder experience I had, until I was so disgusted with life that I wished some unexpected chance would take me out of it, and I wondered how it would all end. Needless to say this mental state made me a very miserable creature physically, and day after day and month after month I have gone home from my work, hoping that I would never see the beginning of another day.

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