Testimony of Healing August 13, 1910 Issue

Deeply do I feel the debt of gratitude which I owe to...

Charlotte F. Boyle

Deeply do I feel the debt of gratitude which I owe to Christian Science for the many benefits I have received, and it is with gladness that I claim the privilege of telling others what this healing truth will do. From childhood I suffered from extreme melancholy, which seemed to affect everything I tried to do. When working in music or any other line of study, a sense of hopelessness and fear was always present. This condition became worse as I grew older, and this was not conducive to bodily health. I found myself manifesting many discordant physical conditions, one being a pain in my back which was felt almost constantly.

We had known of Christian Science in our home for a number of years, and I had received help from it at different times, but without giving it any thought or study. But at last there came a day when my need was so great that I feared for my very reason. Being unable to do my office work any longer, I closed my books and went home, praying for something to give me relief. On entering my room, my eyes fell on a copy of Science and Health which my mother had given me a few months before, but which I had never opened. I had no thought of its helping me, but I opened it and commenced to read. It was hours before I put it down, and when I did so I found that I was healed—absolutely—both mentally and physically!

I cannot tell the joy and freedom I felt as I rose from my chair. Truly I had touched the hem of Christ's garment, and it seemed to me that the whole room was full of light. The buoyant happiness which then filled my thoughts has never left me, and though I have had many problems to solve since, there is always peace and love in my heart, and a surety of God's allness. Some physical inharmonies have come to me since I commenced the study of Christian Science, but the truth has always been found sufficient to meet my every need. Relief has not always come so quickly as at the first, of which I am now glad, because this has caused me to strive harder to know God and man's relation to Him.

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