Testimony of Healing June 3, 1916 Issue

My heart overflows with gratitude to God for the teachings...

Maggie Opel Oglesby

My heart overflows with gratitude to God for the teachings of Christian Science. I joined a church at the age of eighteen and tried to live right in the sight of God, but soon became weary of the weekly round of churchgoing, since it gave nothing that satisfied. I took up another thought which for a few years seemed the truth and gave me much satisfaction, as it taught many valuable lessons. Later I was left with two little children to rear, and the outlook was indeed dark, since ill health and financial difficulties had left me in a hard way for the battle of life as I saw it then.

I became bitter toward my religion, although outwardly trying to cling to it through a sense of duty, and because by nature I was religiously inclined. In my anguish I would lie awake nights and ask why God had forsaken me. Finally in my despair I wished I could die. Once more I went to my church, seeking for some teaching to help me on, but came away with the thought that I never wanted to go again, for instead of leading me to God it was making an infidel of me. All I heard that afternoon was the tearing down of other platforms, while I only wanted to learn God's way.

At this time I was visiting a Christian Science practitioner, and I know now I was being prepared for the good seed. She never urged me to try Christian Science, but lovingly asked me if I had ever read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. I had always thought Scientists discarded the Bible, but found it much in evidence in her room, and this set me to thinking and aroused a curiosity to read the text-book. She asked me one day if I could get it at the library, and that was all I needed to start me aright. I soon had Science and Health and eagerly absorbed it. When I read the interpretation of the Lord's Prayer as given by Mrs. Eddy (see p. 16) I was perfectly satisfied.

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