Testimony of Healing December 11, 1920 Issue

Christian Science has been indeed the answer to my deep...

Anna Harvey Cosby

Christian Science has been indeed the answer to my deep desires. About ten years ago Christian Science came to my notice, and it found me a most miserable creature, filled with superstition and fear; but with it all, there was a longing to know God better and to serve Him with my whole heart. This longing seemed to get stronger and stronger. Later I went to work in a practitioner's home, knowing nothing of Science, however, as I had been brought up in the Baptist faith. One day, when the way seemed dark and I was depressed, I was working around the desk of the practitioner and struck one of his books, as if by accident. It opened to page 66, and the book was "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I felt impelled to read the following: "Trials teach mortals not to lean on a material staff,—a broken reed, which pierces the heart. We do not half remember this in the sunshine of joy and prosperity. Sorrow is salutary. Through great tribulation we enter the kingdom."

The truth contained in these words seemed to throw a great light in my path. I became interested in reading the book, and from that time on I have been fully at one with the wonderful teachings of Christian Science. I have had help through its practice in every way, and feel that I am an entirely different being from the one who read those first light-giving and life-giving words, ten years ago.

Among the various healings that have come to me through the operation of Christian Science was that of heart trouble. The doctor had told my mother that I was in such a condition that I might die at any moment, and that I must not by any means do any more work of any kind. One morning I was so ill that I could not go to work, but after an hour's visit with a practitioner, I felt perfectly free and went about my work, and have never since felt any trace of the claim. Another valuable experience was the overcoming of the fear of criticism, and an extreme sensitiveness to crowds. But one night at a Christian Science service in a large church the healing thought came to me, "Why, God fills all space, and is all that is here, and His thought is kind and loving." I was free at once, and have never since been troubled with what was to me so great a cross.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Testimony of Healing

I am very thankful indeed for the inspiration, strength,...