Testimony of Healing August 29, 1914 Issue

I have many things to be grateful for in Christian Science,...

Mabel Ernst

I have many things to be grateful for in Christian Science, but chiefly for the spiritual healing which has come to me. Before coming into Science, I seemed to be in complete darkness, and the harder I struggled to find my way out, the more determined did the waters seem to close above my head. As a child, I attended church and Sunday school regularly, and studied the Bible faithfully, reading it through three or four times; but later I found so many things which I did not understand and so many passages which seemed contradictory, that I finally gave up in despair. I stopped reading the Bible, and no longer went to church and Sunday school. However, I still tried to pray when I was alone, and thought that perhaps sometime I should understand that which I so much wanted to know.

Whenever I had asked about God I had always been laughed at, or those I questioned said they did not know, so that finally I stopped my inquiries, but thought that perhaps after I died I should understand. In Christian Science I have learned that we do not have to die to learn what God is or to understand man's relationship to Him, and to learn what heaven is Mrs. Eddy's statements in Science and Health have given me a God who is Love, a God whom I can love and not fear. I am learning that heaven is attainable here and now, that it is an harmonious state of mind. Science answers all our questions; it enables us to find all our ideals, and it satisfies our every need because it is a practical and demonstrable religion.

I wish to tell of the beautiful healing which came to me when I had been in Science a little more than three months. My brother and father had passed on, my mother and I had both undergone serious surgical operations, and the last drop had been added to my cup of sorrow, grief, and bitterness when I was told that my mother, too, would soon be called away. All these things had happened within a year and a half. I was badly broken down, and was in such a state of hopeless misery that I felt as if I could not live longer; in fact, I did not want to live. I wondered what I had done to be so punished, and if there was a God, why He did not help me. God did help me, for at this time we decided to try Christian Science for mother as a last resort, as her case had been pronounced incurable by her physicians.

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