Testimony of Healing December 3, 1910 Issue

I was unusually strong as a child, but for some unaccountable...

Augusta Reinstein

I was unusually strong as a child, but for some unaccountable reason my health failed when I was a very young woman, and for twenty-five years, until I came into Christian Science, six years ago, my suffering was intense and continuous. The suffering was mainly mental, because my trouble was one of the nervous system. Besides my ill health, I labored under two other troubles equally as severe, yet I taught school for thirteen years while in this condition. I took the "rest-cure" four times—at home for two weeks, at a hospital for seven weeks, at a private sanitarium for nine weeks, and just before coming into Christian Science for ten days; but I was never even slightly benefited by this. I would say that my illness was of the most desperate type, and that was why I took the rest-cure so often, and as often with failure. It required five years, after I took up Christian Science, to complete my physical demonstration.

I am particularly grateful for the overcoming of worry about household matters, for that worry has always amounted to distress. While Science keeps me faithful to the sense of cleanliness and order, it prevents my being extreme. I have always been used to liberality as regards creature comforts, but I have felt even freer financially since coming into Science, and money has come to me at unexpected times from unexpected sources. I have always exacted a high standard of character and conduct for myself, but I have not always been able to attain this ideal, because uncertain health produced an uncertain disposition; but I am gradually growing more equable, more reliable, and less impulsive.

It has taken me three years to make the demonstration over hatred toward one who I thought had wronged me by taking what seemed to be mine. I have always tried to return good for evil, but it did seem as though it would be utterly impossible to do so in this case. Mrs. Eddy has said that "Love is the liberator" (Science and Health, p. 225), and I have found Christian Science to be the greatest thing in the world. I am deeply grateful to God, and to Mrs. Eddy, who has shown us the way.

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