Testimony of Healing May 15, 1920 Issue

I took up the study of Christian Science for release from...

Nancy E. White

I took up the study of Christian Science for release from a very critical condition of the eyes, which the best oculists in the city had failed to relieve. I had many other ailments, but at first thought only of this alarming trouble. In a few months' study, I experienced great relief from this condition. I then began to try to free myself from other ills, which were chronic stomach trouble of many years' standing, and the ills and weaknesses supposed to be the result of motherhood; but they held their places like stone walls, or rather like rubber walls, for though they seemed to yield a little sometimes, they returned to their old stands. Little progress was made until I began to see that I needed to get rid of infidelity, criticism, envy, and the other fruits of the flesh named in Galatians V; that it was not so much the physical ills I had endured that had taken my strength and were burdening me, as the self-pity and resentment I was harboring.

This discovery of what the trouble was and how to get rid of it came to me slowly. Sometimes a little light would come from a Wednesday evening testimony; again a sentence or an article in the periodicals, describing some one's struggles, would help a little; always the public lectures gave me more light. I studied the Christian Science text-book consistently, and honestly tried to take its medicine, bitter as it sometimes seemed, and all of it with much falling down and getting up to try again. I am boundlessly grateful that I held on, for to-day my mental attitude is normal and I therefore enjoy normal health. How much I suffered and how long I worked before the fetters of human will began to yield a little! I am still on guard against human will, for this must go on till, in the words of the psalmist, we "awake, with thy likeness."

I have also been healed of an unreasoning prejudice against Mrs. Eddy. I now have for her and her work a deeper regard than I know how to begin to express, and the mention of her name arouses gratitude and joy and peace. I wish I could express the measure of my release from bondage mentally, hence physically, and the confidence and courage that are mine, so that others might have their courage renewed to continue to seek the understanding of God and His creation, which understanding is indeed the key to the kingdom.—(Mrs.) Nancy E. White, Omaha, Neb.

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