Testimony of Healing November 23, 1918 Issue

I wish to express my sincere gratitude for the many...

Mollie Orr Waldron

I wish to express my sincere gratitude for the many blessings that have come to me through the study of Christian Science. I was not really happy or free from care even in my childhood, for my life seems to have always been darkened by a sense of fear, and bondage to an evil temper. I was brought up in the faith of one of the orthodox churches, and the great dread of my early years was of death and hell. It seemed impossible to me that any of my immediate family, except my mother, could possibly hope to enter heaven, and I spent many wakeful periods at night in a torment of apprehension as these suggestions of future punishment came to me. As years passed, a strong sense of resentment toward God was added to my early fears, and I finally drifted away from all churches. It was impossible for me either to respect or to love an all-powerful Deity who could plan or even allow such misery as this material world manifested. During this period of my life it would make me feel unhappy even to hear people singing hymns.

I became afraid of germs, storms, climate, heredity; in fact, was afraid of everything that seemed to threaten my life or that of my only child. My physical condition was deplorable at times, and one physician after another, as well as one form of treatment after another, was resorted to without finding any help. I sorely tried the patience of a good husband and kind relatives, but did not seem able to rise out of this mesmerism of fear and evil temper. When conditions were at their worst, Christian Science found me. I asked for treatment and procured a copy of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. It comforted me at once. With the first influx of the truth into my thought, chronic stomach disorder and bowel trouble of years' standing almost instantly disappeared. Sick headaches, rheumatism, biliousness, neuritis, and many other ills of the flesh have practically faded from my thought as the truth has destroyed the old errors of belief.

I am more than grateful for these physical healings, but am most grateful for the knowledge of the true God, fully realizing that all the misery of my life resulted from ignorance of Him "whom to know aright is Life eternal," as our Leader says on page vii of the Preface to Science and Health. It is no wonder that our hearts go out in gratitude to Mrs. Eddy when we realize that it is due to her unselfed love that we have been shown the way to escape from the fear of death here and now. I am grateful for all of our periodicals, including the Monitor, for the help of kind practitioners, and also grateful for class instruction.

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