Testimony of Healing November 27, 1915 Issue

Since I came into Christian Science many evidences of the...

Grace M. Bosworth

Since I came into Christian Science many evidences of the ever-presence of divine Love have been vouchsafed me. My father and older brother being ministers, I had early read all the books in a large theological library, and up to a year ago had read the Bible through twenty-three times. During college days, inspired perhaps by my father's favorite quotation, "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good," I became familiar with many of the works of our greatest freethinkers, and went into slum work and all sorts of work among the poor, hoping to find that larger life for which I was longing but which always seemed just around the corner. At last, weary and discouraged, I dropped into "going it blind," with the hope that in some future life the answer would be revealed. With this submission came a corresponding gradual loss of health, until I was practically a wreck. This state of things continued for several years, and though still young I was doomed by doctors of all schools to worry along in semiinvalidism under several incurable ailments.

Three years ago a good chance to study art came to me, and I went into it so eagerly that all the symptoms of ill health asserted themselves in force, and at last while trying to paint a ceiling I fell from the platform in agony. I was unable to rise from my bed for several days, and then, though believing Christian Science to be of the devil and the great error of this age, to please the people I was with I let them take me to a practitioner. She talked with me for two hours, and though I did not understand much that she said, when I left, to my great astonishment, the pain and weakness were gone. In three treatments I was feeling young and buoyant again, while many so-called incurable ailments, supposedly inherited, had disappeared for good. Most important of all, a great happiness, a constant expectation that the best is yet to be, possessed me. That dear old book, the Bible, so much pondered and so well understood, as I supposed, now opened up with new meaning, and ever since then I have been realizing that "of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end."

For the Lesson-Sermons, the Christian Science publications, class instruction, and church-membership, I cannot be too thankful; and before the example of patient self-abnegation, steadiness of purpose, and wonderful insight of that great woman, our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, I bow in speechless admiration. It has been my privilege to realize the truth for myself and others many times, and always with me, even in the hours of desperate struggle, is that steady sense of increase. How glad I am that Christian Science reached me so soon!—Grace M. Bosworth, Bristol, Vt.

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