Testimony of Healing November 5, 1910 Issue

I have attended a Christian Science church ever since I...

Margaret Baldwin with contributions from Loring Raymond Fulmer

I have attended a Christian Science church ever since I can remember. I was about two years old when my mother became interested in this teaching. That was over eighteen years ago, and from that time to this Truth has been my only physician. When quite small, I was taught to help myself by declaring the truth, but it is only recently that I have really begun to understand in a measure what a Christian Science treatment is. After the age limit in the Sunday School was extended, I went back. I had only about a year to go, but during that year I learned much. I can now see that I formerly had faith, but little understanding, which made me rather uncertain of the result, and now I can really "know the truth." and this frees me.

From the time I was a little child, I suffered from a bowel trouble. My mother tried to help me, but the attacks seemed to become more severe and more frequent as I grew older, until about two years ago, when one attack would come right after another. Each time relief came through Science, but I felt that I could not be doing my own work correctly. One day I felt very badly; I was discouraged, and when I came from school I threw myself on my bed, thinking that I should have to call a practitioner; but the thought kept presenting itself that this was my work. While I lay there I realized the truth about man and his relation to God as never before, and after a few moments relief came. That was over a year ago, and the trouble has never returned. I can surely say that I know what a slow healing is, but I am very glad to be healed at last. The error had been fought for years, and just as I began to feel that I could not fight it much longer, it yielded. This showed me very plainly that it is God who does the work and not we ourselves,—"We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture."

I cannot tell how grateful I am for this healing religion, and for Mrs. Eddy, through whom the truth has reached mankind in this age. How she must have guarded the door of her mind against the thoughts which enslave! I am indeed grateful to God for all His goodness! I long to see the time when the Scriptural command, "Little children, keep yourselves from idols,"—the idols of jealousy, hatred, selfishness, and all that is unlike God,—shall be universally obeyed.—Margaret Baldwin, Norwood, Ohio.

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