Testimony of Healing December 10, 1910 Issue

If I should be asked what was the greatest thing that had...

Eleanor M. Parker

If I should be asked what was the greatest thing that had ever come into my life, I should gladly and unhesitatingly reply, Christian Science. I was not brought into Science through the physical healing, but for relief from a most unhappy mental condition and a desire to know what God really is, to have a better understanding of life, and to know myself. At the time I began the study of Christian Science, as I took an introspective and retrospective view of human existence, I pronounced it a failure, a disappointment. It had in no way approached my ideal, and when weighed in the balance it was found wanting. Even the God I had tried to serve since my childhood was gone, and the only prayer I seemed able to offer was, "Why hast thou forsaken me?"

I had been a member of a church, and had been actively engaged in church work since my early girlhood. I had taken up the different cults and sciences, in order to understand life and its many seemingly difficult problems; but I had reached a place where these things no longer satisfied; so I had given them all up, and seemed to be adrift, alone, without God and without hope. I had heard a great deal about Christian Science, but more by way of ridicule than in its praise. I however thought it might prove an interesting study, and I decided to see what there was in it. I was earnestly seeking the truth, and if Christian Science appeared to me to be the truth after I had given it careful study, I wanted it; if not, I could give it up, as I had many other studies.

When I procured a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and began the study, I can never tell how it appealed to me nor the light that it has since brought into my life. It was the very knowledge for which I had been hungering and thirsting, and it satisfied as no other book ever had. I had always loved the Bible, and portions of it seemed very beautiful to me, but with the understanding of the Christian Science text-book the entire Bible has become illuminated and its promises are living truths. While reading and studying Science and Health I soon noticed that my entire mental attitude toward life had changed, and I was freer and happier than I had been since I was a child. All self-pity, disappointment, bitterness, discord, and an utter disregard for life had gone, and I had found perfect happiness, love, harmony, and spiritual bliss. It has indeed restored to me the joy of salvation.

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