Testimony of Healing November 13, 1920 Issue

For many years I had been a firm adherent of the...

Adela Anson

For many years I had been a firm adherent of the Church of England; but gradually began to see that it did not fulfill all that the Bible promised as the outcome of a church founded on God, so I set out to find a church that promised to provide that full salvation which life in God must bring. I sought through many schools of thought, but found them of no avail, until I was led to the study of Christian Science. As I studied I began to see that this was the church for which I had been seeking.

"Our church," our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, tells us in Science and Health (p. 35), "is built on the divine Principle, Love. We can unite with this church only as we are new-born of Spirit, as we reach the Life which is Truth and the Truth which is Life by bringing forth the fruits of Love,—casting out error and healing the sick." This explanation of church has given me the understanding of these words in the Bible: "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved," but by the name of Christ, which Mrs. Eddy tells us in the Glossary of Science and Health (p. 583) is "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error." I have proved this to be true, for the demonstration of Christian Science has saved me through the darkest and most difficult experiences of sorrow, sickness, and despair. I can only express my most heartfelt gratitude for this salvation by standing more firmly in this true Church, "the structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle" (Science and Health, p. 583)—this Church of Christ, Scientist, which is founded on the rock of Principle, against which the gates of hell shall not prevail.—(Mrs.) Adela Anson, Manchester, England.