Testimony of Healing November 13, 1920 Issue

I am not a Christian Scientist although I have been reading...

Mary A. Ackman

I am not a Christian Scientist although I have been reading Science and Health for more than five years and would like to give my testimony as one of gratitude to God and love to Mrs. Eddy, who was, I believe, ordained by God as the messenger of liberty to the captives of sin, disease, and death for this age. Mrs. Eddy tells us that "the All-wise does not bestow His highest trusts upon the unworthy. When He commissions a messenger, it is one who is spiritually near Himself" (Science and Health, p. 455). Judging by the fruits we cannot but acknowledge His commission.

The blessings which have come to me, just through reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" would require more space to tell than I would feel justified in asking. First I was greatly impressed, upon opening the book, by the sentence, "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings" (Preface, p. vii). Feeling a response in my own consciousness, and with the eagerness of a child for a new-found joy I began my search. I had had medicine in my home every day in the year and had either to call or consult a physician every few weeks, as I seemed to be the victim of a complication of diseases, among which were rheumatism, malaria, and chronic stomach trouble of seventeen years' standing, which was accompanied by sympathetic heart trouble. All these ailments left me before I had finished reading the book. Of course I did not hurry through it, as I was doing my own work, when I was able to, and many of its statements perplexed and puzzled me, and I would find myself lying awake late at night trying to understand some of them. All this time the truth was doing its work without my understanding how it was being done. In a short time I found myself freed from the thought of limitation, and wanted to present all my people with a copy of Science and Health, but I had to learn a lesson. I found that while I was ready and willing to give, others were not prepared to receive.

I am grateful to God for all His manifestations of good,—to Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, and to Mary Baker Eddy.

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