Testimony of Healing May 10, 1913 Issue

My first introduction to Christian Science was when a...

Arabella Storer

My first introduction to Christian Science was when a friend, the wife of a physician, showed me the definition of God in the text-book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. At that time I was suffering with chronic appendicitis as diagnosed by physicians, also inflammation of the bladder, bronchial trouble, and other ills too numerous to mention. I was given the Christian Science Sentinel and Journal to read, and in the perusal I detected that wrong thinking about God and man brought sickness and all discordant conditions, so I began to correct my thinking by substituting some of the ideas contained in the know and in the references from the Bible. I do not know when the diseases disappeared; suffice it to say, I was healed.

I procured a copy of Science and Health at the public library, but considered it too deep for me, so returned it rather discouraged; yet I seemed so restless without it that I got it again. With the next reading the truth began to dawn upon my thought, and I thereupon purchased a copy. The following month I attended my first Christian Science lecture, and at that lecture I was healed of sorrow over the loss of my parents, who had been taken within a year and a half, and of unloving thoughts about God. My minister had tried to console me with the thought that God knew best, and that we must suffer for our sins and become reconciled to His will; but that made me more rebellious than ever. At the lecture, however, I learned that God is Love, that I was His child, and that Love never takes any good from us. Through this truth the sense of grief and bitterness was destroyed.

Another healing, over the fear of electric storms, from which I had suffered from infancy, took place in the Christian Science reading-room. Only those who have known this fear can realize what it means; but it was all destroyed during a severe storm, when a Scientist so clearly led me form sense to Soul that I was not even conscious of the storm. My first attendance at the Wednesday evening service rather disturbed me, as the words "Christian Science" antagonized me, and when people expressed their thanks for what Christian Science had done for them, I felt they were robbing God of His rights; but when I reasoned that Christian Science is the Christ knowledge, and that it was for this that they were grateful, the sense of antagonism soon disappeared. I have always been grateful for class instruction, which directed my thought to Principle and enabled me to separate the spiritual from the material. I always receive a clearer understanding of the spiritual through the study of our Lesson-Sermons, and I feel that, as we read in Proverbs. "understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it." The pure thought expressed by our daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor, shows me how careful we should be in giving our testimonies at the Wednesday evening meetings, that we should avoid lengthy details of discordant conditions, in order that all who listen may go away uplifted and not depressed.

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