Testimony of Healing February 26, 1921 Issue

It would be impossible for me to tell of all the blessings...

Nellie M. Whiteside

It would be impossible for me to tell of all the blessings I have received through the study of Christian Science. I have been reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, for over twenty-five years. The textbook was brought to my home by a visitor, who spent the winter with us, and I read it during all my spare time. It seemed so wonderful and beautiful, I felt I had found what I had been wishing for, as my past life had been filled with unsatisfied longings. I was full of fear and without hope in a future life. The study of Mrs. Eddy's writings has changed my whole outlook on life, and words fail to express the gratitude I owe to her for her untiring work of love for humanity.

The chapter in Science and Health, "Christian Science versus Spiritualism," helped me better to understand that as we realize more what Life is, we see that death is an illusion. In the words of Mrs. Eddy: "Existence continues to be a belief of corporeal sense until the Science of being is reached. Error brings its own self-destruction both here and hereafter, for mortal mind creates its own physical conditions. Death will occur on the next plane of existence as on this, until the spiritual understanding of Life is reached" (Science and Health, p. 77). As I had never been a member of a church and did not understand what God is, I felt I was in the dark and was quite unhappy, and I had two young boys who, I felt, ought to have the right idea of God. We were then strangers in the city in which we lived, but I soon found a Christian Science practitioner and was healed of all my physical troubles in a short time. I felt like a new person after having been sick for over a year. The next Sunday we attended our first Christian Science service and Sunday school. I never can forget the love I felt at that service; I was very happy indeed. It has proved one of the greatest blessings, and a comfort to me to have my sons grow up with such help as they have had all these years in the study of Science. They love its teaching. I owe all I have to Christian Science.

(Mrs.) Nellie M. Whiteside, San Jose, California.

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