The lines I am penning to-day are the grateful testimony...

Madelaine Portron

The lines I am penning to-day are the grateful testimony of one whose life has been transformed by Christian Science, and to whom a new concept of God has been revealed. I have received so many blessings from this teaching that I long to see it spread everywhere. My childhood and my youth were not, however, devoid of religion. I am the daughter of a Protestant minister and was brought up without any undue formalism in a deeply religious home. I was myself a believer, but later, when I reached the age when one thinks for oneself, many doubts came to me, many questions rose up to confront me and remained unanswered. I had given up reading the Bible, as I did not understand it, and I seldom prayed, being under the impression that I did not know how to pray.

At length trials came to me, long and very painful, and in my distress I asked God why He allowed those who had not done anything deserving misfortune to go on suffering. Nothing, however, touched my trust in God, which in spite of all remained intact, deep and vital; so when nearly two years ago I heard Christian Science mentioned for the first time, I at once had the impression that that which I had long been expecting had been sent to me.

I was at this time working beyond my strength at hospital work, further complicated by my own personal duties. I was depressed by the sadness of the war, and was on the way to becoming a nervous wreck. The immediate effect of the appearing of Christian Science in my life was to quiet entirely my mental distress and to remove the extreme and painful sense of physical fatigue which haunted me. This happened even before I had begun to study, since all I knew of this religion was what I had been able to glean from a few talks with some one who had been ill but was healed, and the reading of three pamphlets translated into French.

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