Testimony of Healing July 1, 1911 Issue

With an overflowing heart, full of gratitude for the...

Mabel J. Bond

With an overflowing heart, full of gratitude for the knowledge of Christian Science, I wish to testify to a few of its many blessings. I have just entered college, and I feel that my path at every step of the way has been lighted by the light of Truth, as my mother was healed in Christian Science when I was four years old. When I was very small I cried a great deal, and as I grew older it was found that this was from severe headaches. I soon developed such a bad disposition that by the time I was five years old it was almost unbearable to my parents, brothers, and sister, and I seemed to have no control of my temper. Aftert an outburst I would be morbid and morose, not saying anything to any one for perhaps weeks, and all that time I was as stubborn and wilful as a child could be, and I seemed to get worse and worse.

At this time my mother had just begun to study Science, but I was too young to understand much of it. As I grew older I was one of the most unhappy children in existence, and succeeded in making those around me unhappy also. As my mother gained more understanding of the great truth, she tried to conquer my disposition through love. This helped, but at times I would lapse into my old feelings and was seemingly worse than ever. I thought that every one hated me, and I was very certain that I hated every one else.

Through the help and love of my good mother, and her untiring zeal in leading me into the way that dear Mrs. Eddy has shown us, I am indeed thankful to say that those dark days of headaches and worse heartaches and bitter thoughts are long past. When I was about ten years old I began to enjoy attending our Christian Science Sunday school, and although I am as yet only a beginner, I am sincerely grateful that I have the glorious privilege and opportunity of studying this truth which has rolled away the stone from the door of my dark prison and broken the chain that bound me. Now, instead of wishing I were dead, I just cannot help feeling a great sense of love and gratitude to God welling up in my heart every time I look at the golden sunshine or feel the fresh air on my cheek. I cannot help but contrast my feelings now, and in fact for the last five years, with the bitter, black thoughts I had before, when I had no love for anything that moved or anything that grew. I just try to let love fill me, and I see and feel beauty and sweetness in everything. The world seems ever new, and the more I understand of divine Love the brighter everything appears and the easier my school work is.

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