Testimony of Healing September 25, 1920 Issue

I wish to express my gratitude for the many blessings received...

Lulu M. Martin with contributions from Steve S. Martin

I wish to express my gratitude for the many blessings received through Christian Science. It has been about nine years since I first became interested. I was hungering for spiritual food at that time but not know it. I thought there was nothing left for me but death and prayed in the old way to pass on, not so much because of ill health but because of sorrow, discord, darkness, despair, and loneliness. But this wonderful truth was shown to me like a light in the dark, healing me of these seeming discords.

Sometimes there would be struggles, and self-pity would creep in, but by reading the chapter on Prayer, also the chapter on Marriage I would be uplifted, and as time went on things grew brighter. After five years of study of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, my husband was healed of the liquor habit. He had had that false appetite for several years and is now entirely free from it. We began progress, prosperity came to us, our home came to us through divine Love. That was four years ago. The poem, "Feed My Sheep," written by our Leader, the first stanza of which is:—

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