Testimony of Healing August 7, 1920 Issue

There must be other mothers who are passing through...

Marion Hopewell

There must be other mothers who are passing through the ordeal of the sense of loss such as I experienced a year and a half ago when my dear son, a boy of sixteen, passed away at one of our public schools, after only three days' illness. I send this testimony, knowing it will reach these hearts, and comfort them, as I have been comforted. For a while I lost all sense of God as good and just groped in darkness, although I had known of Christian Science for about eight years. I could find no comfort in it in my selfish grief; in fact, never during that one year did I even open my copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

On the anniversary of the passing of my boy, I felt impelled to visit one of our reading rooms, where I had always had such a sense of peace and rest, found nowhere else. I knew there was help and comfort for me if I would earnestly seek it. Never shall I forget the loving help I met that day and the glorious healing I have had from sorrow and a sense of separation. It came very gradually, but I was lovingly and patiently guided into the right way of thinking. I know that my son lives and moves and has his being, now and always, in God, Life, and that we never are and never can be separated. For a while I could not part again with my other son, although he loved his school life. I could not overcome the fear that he also might be taken from me. That fear has now disappeared and he is happy, away at his school again. He is a student of Christian Science and has been an untold comfort to me in my darkest hours. I know that he is in God's care, and that no harm can come near him.

I have been healed of a desire for and use of stimulants, a dreadful sense of resentment, and many bodily ailments. For all these blessings I daily try to prove my fervent gratitude to God and to our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who has gloriously shown us the way to heaven, harmony, through right thinking and living, here and now. Truly the kingdom of God is within, and the truth is waiting for us to receive it.

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