Testimony of Healing January 1, 1921 Issue

It is with great gratitude that I give my testimony to...

Adalaide M. Briggs

It is with great gratitude that I give my testimony to the regenerating power of the truth as taught by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in her textbook "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

When I began to read the testimonies I did not believe them, and discontinued reading them. Later I went to the Christian Science church and heard them given there, and began to question the object of the people who gave them. I knew they could not all be deceived, nor could they all be trying to deceive others, for their testimonies were given with such sincerity. I had come to the place where I could no longer believe the teachings of my own church, and the human sense of life was such a burden to me that more than once I was at the point of ending it all. I was told by my pastor that God sent suffering for some good purpose, and yet that God is Love. I could not endure it and gave up attendance at the church services. I could not even open my Bible without reading of the wrath of God, and so finally did not open it at all, and became so miserable mentally that I could not even bear the sunshine, for it seemed to be mocking me with its gladness, and I could not endure the darkness of the night. I was miserable mentally and physically, discouraged, despondent, and always weary.

For six years I hardly attended a church service or read my Bible. During that time I often thought of the words: "Be still, and know that I am God." Yet I could not seem to get anything from them. I looked into other religions but could find no abiding place, nor peace. One day I found a copy of the Christian Science Sentinel that had been left by some one. One of the articles started with the words, "Be still, and know that I am God." I picked it up and read it. It stated that the starting point in Christian Science is the allness of God. That was a new idea to me. I took the Sentinel the next day and went to the beach, where I could be alone, and I read it all day, and knew I had found the truth about God. After that I thought I would try Christian Science treatment for a trouble for which I had used drugs or some material means for years. I did not care so much about the healing as I did to prove the power, or law, of God. I told the practitioner I could not believe the healing possible, but in less than half an hour I had my first proof. In two years the trouble returned. I called the same practitioner, and in two treatments the healing was complete. Since then I have received many healings. The sense of lack seemed the hardest to overcome, but I have learned that in seeking God first all our needs are supplied.

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