Testimony of Healing February 26, 1910 Issue

With a heart full of gratitude for the many blessings...

Edith L. Parsons

With a heart full of gratitude for the many blessings which have come to me through Christian Science, I am sending this testimony. From early childhood a deep longing to know God, and a love for the Bible, comforted me in spite of an intensely melancholy and discontented disposition. About twelve years ago I had reached that stage of experience where the desire for a satisfying religion culminated in a restless search for that which I felt must exist somewhere. Isaiah's words, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee:" and the many beautiful promises in Psalms, assured me that a life of peace and joy was to be obtained, here and now, if one could understand how to live near to God.

Having been for some time a member of an orthodox church, I began to study the creeds of other churches, at the same time attending each for several weeks, and some Bible readings as well. Just at this time Christian Science was offered me as a possible remedy for a trouble with my eyes. I went to a practitioner and had two treatments, and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" was given me to read; but I received no help from the treatments, and had read only a few pages of Science and Health when I laid it aside. I remember that, after talking with the practitioner, I had the feeling that if I were healed my conscience would compel me to become a Christian Scientist, and I rebelled at the thought of leaving my friends and joining these seemingly peculiar people. Not yet had the discipline of suffering reached that point which would enable me to discern the truth in Mrs. Eddy's book.

Finding nothing satisfying in all the other religions I had investigated, and in a short time being unable to attend church because of ill health. I dropped my search for God, though still clinging to a vague hope of finding Him some time. Thus I drifted along for six years, in a maze of physical suffering and mental unrest. The search for happiness in various material ways only brought renewed disappointment and unhappiness, while the continual taking of medicines and seeking the advice of physicians with only partial relief, added to my distress.

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