Testimony of Healing August 2, 1913 Issue

It is some years since I first heard of Christian Science...

Mary C. Drummond Henderson

It is some years since I first heard of Christian Science, and I have often felt how much I should like to tell others of all the joy and peace it has brought into my life. In the old thought, after losing a beloved mother, a dear husband, and a baby daughter, I yearned for spiritual guidance and comfort, and like many another seeking for the comfort that heals the broken-hearted, I yearned about, trying many different forms of religion, but without gaining the help I so much needed. At times my sense of loneliness was very intense; I felt like a bark without a rudder, tossing about upon an angry sea, with no land in sight. The small capital I had was laid out to make a home for myself and my only remaining child, where I was to try to maintain us both; but not having been brought up to earn anything, I found it a great struggle, and the greater the struggle the more desirous I became for spiritual comfort.

I often attended church four times on Sunday,—early celebration, matins, afternoon service, at a little church some two and a half miles from my home, then even-song,—as well as every service possible during the week. All this, however, did not give me what I longed for, till one day a young lady visited my house and spoke of Christian Science, which she said was being established in London. She told me what good it was doing for its followers and those interested, but she did not speak of it altogether in tones of approval; and though I longed to hear more, I did not like to question her, as I have always disapproved of any religion being ridiculed.

My longing was, however, shortly to be gratified. I had been suffering rather seriously for some time with an internal trouble, and it was considered necessary for me to consult a doctor in London (one who had known me during my husband's lifetime), who pronounced my case rather worse than I expected, saying that an operation was imperative. While in London I called on a friend, who, upon hearing of the sad state of my health, for I was much upset at the doctor's decision, told me how greatly interested he was in Christian Science, as well as how much better he was since he had heard of it, and begged me there and then not to undergo any operation without first consulting a practitioner, which I readily promised to do.

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