Testimony of Healing May 29, 1920 Issue

In turning to Christian Science at a time of great intellectual...

Hilda B. Evennett

In turning to Christian Science at a time of great intellectual worry and uncertainty as to life in its larger meanings, I have been so wonderfully helped in every way that it has awakened in me a real desire to understand spiritual truth, to turn away from the human mind, and to learn something of the vastness of the one Mind. During the first weeks of study I left off wearing glasses, and the headaches which had perpetually troubled me left me and have never returned; from the very beginning also I found that Christian Science helped me to overcome attacks of depression and gradually to arrive at a more orderly and dependable state of thinking.

In the early part of 1918 I had what I suppose would be called a nervous breakdown, accompanied by extreme exhaustion. I had thought of myself as acutely sensitive and as having inherited a delicate heart, and had made a reality of the need of certain foods which were not available then, and in other ways I had accepted the belief that health was dependent on heart, brain, and outward circumstances. I had the kind help of a practitioner at first, until I was able to help myself, and within six months of that time I was taking long bicycle rides in very hilly country in all weathers, frequently at night and amid traffic.

My complete healing has been slow, and there is more earnest work to be done before I can say, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." I have, however, been growing stronger each day and have been able to do anything necessary in the way of work. I have come to a better state of health by giving up the wrong thought of health in the body and by understanding in some degree, as Mrs. Eddy says on page 120 of Science and Health, that "health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind." I have exchanged the old anxious thinking about problems of work and affairs for a less self-centered and more sincere desire for usefulness in the world, and I find now that my thought habitually turns to Christian Science when confronted by any difficulty. There is nothing too great and nothing seems small, for every least demonstration results in the uplifting knowledge of being nearer to the truth of Life.

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