Testimony of Healing February 19, 1921 Issue

Many are the blessings which have come to me since I...

Margaret E. Rudston-Read

Many are the blessings which have come to me since I began to study Christian Science, and I wish to sent my tithe to the storehouse as a small expression of gratitude. In a certain small country village there is a little thatched cottage in which a man and his wife dwell. The world would count them poor, but they are not really so, for they have their Bible and their textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, both of which they dearly love. They would have been happy had it not been for a discordant condition close by, which threatened to destroy the harmony in the cottage and even the inhabitants themselves, and there was much fear. One day I happened to call at the cottage and I left a copy of the Sentinel. A few days later the woman told me of a beautiful article in it called "At 'the ford Jabbok.'" I called her attention to the story of Jacob in Genesis and pointed out what Mrs. Eddy tells us of Jacob on page 308 in our textbook. Then I went home to study the article and my books.

The next morning my maid awoke me and told me that her companion had been ill all night with a very bad throat and could hardly speak, and that help was needed. So clearly did the lessons stand out which had been learned the previous day that the girl was instantaneously healed, as were two other the same morning. When I called on my friend at the cottage I found all fear had disappeared, for she was learning the truth about man. The discordant condition has been entirely overcome and peace and joy abound. This is only one of many experiences where a Christian Science periodical has led to a deeper study of the Bible and of the key which unlocks it, in which key we find Mrs. Eddy's words: "The Bible contains the recipe for all healing" (Science and Health, p. 406). I could tell of much physical healing, of the overcoming of lack of housing, and of labor and educational difficulties overcome, for we have proved that a right understanding of Christian Science does solve the many problems which confront us day by day.

I owe profound demonstrable religion, which and gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for a logical and demonstrable religion, which came to me when I needed it for my children, and for showing me the regenerating power of Christian Science. "God said, Let there be light: and there was light." And this light is showing us more clearly the more clearly the things we never knew before. We learn to go forward, forgetting the things that are behind, and as we partake of our inheritance we experience something of the joy and peace which Jesus promised. I know that only by letting my light shine can I express my gratitude for Christ Jesus the Way-shower, whose life demonstrated the truth which frees us from bondage, and also for Mrs. Eddy, whose purity, courage, and consecration enabled her to give us the means by which we can understand the works of our Master, so that we can begin to follow in his footsteps and obey his words. For all I have learned and am learning I offer my token of gratitude.—(Mrs.) Margaret E. Rudston-Read, London, England.

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