Testimony of Healing November 6, 1920 Issue

I do not know just where to commence or to leave off...

Jennie Estelle Welton

I do not know just where to commence or to leave off in telling of the wonderful change Christian Science has wrought in my life, and also in the lives of other members of my family. I came into Christian Science four years ago. For over thirty years I had been what the world terms a semi-invalid and in the words of Scripture had "suffered many things of many physicians," and was only worse because of it. I had passed through many critical operations, was a nervous wreck, and seemed to have almost every ill the flesh is heir to. In the first few weeks of study I was healed of a lameness in my back from which I had suffered for ten or twelve years, so that if I stooped over it was difficult to raise myself up again without taking hold of something for support. I have also been healed of chronic bowel trouble.

For these and many other demonstrations of the power of Truth I am indeed grateful, but most of all for the mental change, the spiritual uplift which I have come to know I needed most of all. I have been healed to a great extent of a hasty temper, of hatred, envy, jealousy, and all the terrible brood of wrong thoughts so common to mortals. I am trying each day and hour to express more love, to be obedient to our revered Leader's teaching as far as I understand it. I am more grateful than any mere words can express, to God and to Mary Baker Eddy who made it possible for me to understand Jesus' teachings.

Four years ago I would not read the Bible, did not believe it. Now it is my daily food and I am trying to discern the deep spiritual meaning hidden in its teachings. I want to make my daily life prove my gratitude, for in no other way can I hope to repay the debt I owe to every one who has helped me to make Christian Science practical in my daily life. I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church, for all of our dear Leader's works, and for all the periodicals.

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