Testimony of Healing January 14, 1911 Issue

Words cannot express my gratitude to our heavenly...

Fannie Dillon

Words cannot express my gratitude to our heavenly Father, nor to the one who has been sufficiently Christlike to have become the channel through which such indescribable good has come to all mankind. Those like myself who have been raised from the depths of discouragement and from great physical suffering can best understand what it means to be grateful to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for her immortal discovery.

About three years ago I found myself a borken-down music student in Berlin, Germany. A sense of overwork had crushed my ability to progress, and I found myself in deep despondency, while the physical suffering resulting from this mental state seemed insufferable. Christian Science was brought to my attention at that time through one of my sisters, but notwithstanding the self-sacrificing efforts of a practitioner in Berlin, and some improvement in my physical condition, I was as one having eyes, yet seeing not, so I returned to materia medica. One of the best physicians in Berlin then took my case in hand, and urgently advising my return to my home in Los Angeles, Cal., wrote at once to my parents, discouraging all thought of my ever being able to continue with music as a profession. I had yet to realize the truth of my practitioner's constant and loving assurance that "God is ever present," so I acted upon the physician's advice and returned home. My mental state was such that I did not wish to live, believing death to be the only sure means of relief. I reached home the first of February, 1906, and continued in this condition until early in March.

One day my sister, who had been greatly benefited in Christian Science, brought me a copy of the Journal of December, 1905, and gently urged me to read an article therein. I had told my sister a few days before that if I could only understand what was meant by the "unreality" and "nothingness" of evil and matter, I might become interested in Christian Science. At first I refused to read the article, which was on these subjects, but I finally began, with meager interest, and mostly to please my sister, as I thought; but after the first few lines I forgot my disinclination to read, and soon became completely absorbed in the article. As I read, a glorious revelation of Truth was experienced by me, and all my suffering did indeed prove to be "nothingness" (its native state). The next day I went to my work again, a happy and well girl, and commenced the study of our text-book, Science and Health, with the utmost joy and careful attention.

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