Testimony of Healing July 8, 1911 Issue

About two years ago I came to Christian Science for...

LORRAINE LABBERTE

About two years ago I came to Christian Science for relief from sleeplessness, which had begun to trouble me about six months after I came to Berlin. The doctor said that change of climate and overwork were the cause of the trouble, and he prescribed all kinds of remedies, which did me no permanent good. When I had endured this want of sleep for about eight months, as a last resort, before giving up to discouragement and going back home, we decided to try Christian Science. We sought out a practitioner and I began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. My cure seemed very slow. Often I became greatly discouraged and felt like giving up Christian Science, but the statements in the text-book had impressed me so strongly as being the truth that I could not discard them as false, for even during this short period of study they had become my own convictions. When I finally came to realize this I stopped reading Christian Science merely for the "loaves and fishes," and studied it just for the interest and joy of seeking the truth. It was about two months before I noticed an improvement, but on looking back to that time now, I know that in two weeks, yes, after the first treatment, I felt lighter and freer, as if a heavy weight had been removed from me.

I am perfectly well now. I very seldom pass a wakeful night, and I am very grateful to Christian Science for the change it has brought about in my condition. This physical healing seems, however, very insignificant when I consider the other and far deeper results. Christian Science is to me a practical guide for every-day life, developing in me keener powers of observation and a clearer discernment of right and wrong in thought and action. The truth is conquering a great deal of self-consciousness and embarrassment which I suffered at meeting strangers, and is slowly rooting out other faults which made me miserable and which I had always despaired of overcoming.

That which I regard as the greatest blessing is what this understanding of Truth has brought to me mentally. The vastness of the universe filled me with an unfathomable sense of insecurity and dread, and I used to brood a great deal on the inconsistencies of a life which at one time seemed to be and the next moment to pass away into nothingness. The Bible, too, had been cast aside as a volume of contradictions. We did not attend the churches, for they did not offer any solution to these problems. Christian Science has, however, altered all this. I know that we are living in eternity right now, and that man is immortal even now. The consciousness of this lends a spur to activity; in the great light of eternal Truth, persons, events, and circumstances assume their proper level, and contentment and tranquillity have an abiding place in thought. I am especially grateful for this blessing, and I am indeed deeply thankful to Mrs. Eddy for her sublime perseverance in giving Christian Science to the world.

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