Testimony of Healing September 9, 1911 Issue

I have been a student of Christian Science only a short...

Emily Eastwood

I have been a student of Christian Science only a short time, but in that time my outlook on life has completely changed. In the old days things were beginning to look so hopeless; I was getting older, had several infirmities, and was beginning to think that death was my only way out. I belonged to the church, but got very little comfort; I did not find the Bible interesting, though I honestly tried to read it. I tried to believe in a God of love, but could never understand or reconcile this with the fact (as I had been taught) that He sent all our sickness and trouble, and that however hard we tried to be good, it made very little difference in respect to our sufferings; so I tried to bear things, and worship the God I found so strangely unlike even the loving human parent. May He forgive me! how could I have known so little of the All-loving!

One day, when I was telling my troubles to one of my loved boys, he said, "Mother, why don't you go on with Christian Science?" He knew that two years before I had bought Mrs. Eddy's book, but it seemed that I could not then understand it. His words, thank God, revived my waning interest. I began to make inquiries, and found a friend who had been healed of a painful condition by Christian Science. I went to a practitioner myself, and in three weeks I was completely cured of a distressing form of rheumatism, and two other most trying and painful ailments. I was so delighted, and so thankful to God, that I took up in real earnest the study of the Bible, in conjunction with Mrs. Eddy's "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and the knowledge of God thus gained has quite changed my outlook on life. I know that God is Love, and is close to each of us,—Love's all-power a mighty shield before us. He created all that was created, therefore evil does not exist, for God pronounced creation good.

I know that if I try to mold my life on that of our beloved Wayshower, Christ Jesus, though I may falter and fail often, yet made in God's likeness, spiritual, not material, I have only to stretch out my hand in faith to Him, and His strength is sufficient for me, and all fear leaves me.

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