Testimony of Healing December 17, 1921 Issue

I wish to express my gratitude for the wonderful help I...

M. O. Wilton

I wish to express my gratitude for the wonderful help I have received from Christian Science. I turned to Christian Science when all material remedies had failed. I was suffering from a severe nervous breakdown and mental depression, and was utterly without hope. I had slept very little for months, and when I did the dreams and nightmares were so disturbing I was glad to awaken. I felt sure that nothing could save me from insanity, and my waking hours were filled with thoughts of fear and dread. I could not collect my thoughts sufficiently to write a letter and I could not have any visitors, as talking upset me so much; and if I tried to read, the mental confusion seemed dreadful.

When I had been practically bedridden for two years and had received no benefit from the doctors who had been attending me, Christian Science was mentioned to me by a lady who came to see the nurse who was caring for me. I felt quite sure it could not help me, but she sent for a Christian Scientist, a friend of hers who lived over thirty miles away. This lady came to see me and though I had thought I did not wish to have anything to do with Christian Science I felt very much better after her visit and was quite anxious for her to come again. After her second visit I was quite healed of gastritis which had been troubling me for years, and for which I had been taking medicine three times a day. After this all desire for medicine left me, though previously I had thought I could not live a day without it. As time went on I gradually became able to read the Christian Science literature. The first Sentinel I took up opened at the testimonies of healing and I read of a case similar to my own which had been healed. This gave me hope, as I had thought my case was hopeless. My healing was slow, possibly because I clung to thoughts of resentment, anger, and a sense of having been unjustly treated. With the help of the Christian Scientist, however, who continued to come to see me, I gained steadily until I was able to get up and go about the house, and after a time I was able to do the work of the household. Only those who have been in the condition that I was in can understand the joy and gratitude I feel at being able to enjoy life again. I am even more grateful that I have been able to overcome to some extent extreme sensitiveness, irritability, and a tendency to worry over everything. I feel happier than I ever thought it was possible for me to be. I still have much to overcome, but it seems so beautiful to know that God is the only power and that as I continue to gain understanding all will be well with me.—(Miss) M. O. Wilton, Willaura, Victoria, Australia.

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