Testimony of Healing July 8, 1911 Issue

When I first heard of Christian Science I had been a...

ANNIE M. MERCER

When I first heard of Christian Science I had been a nervous invalid for several years, and spent most of my time in bed or on the sofa. I had been under medical treatment more or less all my life, as I had never known what it was to feel really well. The doctors prescribed restcures, electric treatment, strict diet, etc., but nothing seemed to benefit me and I got worse and worse, until I had to be wheeled about the house in an invalid-chair but I bore everything uncomplainingly, under the impression that it was God's will and was all for some wise purpose. I was not unhappy, because I always felt that God was with me and that in due time He would deliver me from bondage. And so He did.

A friend wrote and asked me to try Christian Science. I knew nothing whatever about it, and the name did not appeal to me; also I had heard it much ridiculed. Science in those days meant to me something that led away from God, and I was afraid the perusal of the Christian Science literature might do me harm, in trying to lead me out of the right path in which I thought I had been walking for many years, but to please my friend I got Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," although I did not like the latter part of the title at all. I, however, began to read it, and what was my joy to find in it the spiritual food my soul longed for, and that none of the churches had offered in a form that satisfied my cravings. I drank in every word and felt it was the truth. I could not put the book down, but studied it every waking moment, and by the time I was half way through, my ill health was at an end! I got up off my sofa and walked about, a free woman, and have remained so. My first act was to throw away all the medicine which I had been taking regularly three times a day. Since then I have never touched a drop, and this was six years ago. I felt that henceforth God would be sufficient for me, and so He has been. I have since had Christian Science treatment on three occasions for various ailments, and each time they have quickly vanished. Now that I know what Christian Science really is, I cannot understand any true Christian's opposing or doubting it, and as for its leading any one astray, it only leads them out of the various man-made creeds and doctrines into the straight and narrow way of Truth, into the path that Jesus trod.

No right-minded person can fail to feel grateful to the noble woman who has made the way plain to us through her great spiritual understanding, and those indeed are still "far from the kingdom of God" who can bear the least animosity toward her.

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