Testimony of Healing April 23, 1921 Issue

I am exceedingly grateful for Christian Science

Flora F. Gooch with contributions from William Dunstan, Mable E. Lara

I am exceedingly grateful for Christian Science. Every day I love and praise it more. Thirteen years ago the Christian Science textbook was placed in my hand, just when despair was depriving me of health and a mother's natural joy in her children. It seemed that everything the world considers necessary to normal living had been taken from us, and the phantom failure was continually holding a hopeless future before me. Fortunately, "man's extremity is God's opportunity," for it was at this crisis that the inevitable friend gave me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. As I read page after page of that prophesied book of redemption, there awakened in my thought a new sense of hope and strength, with an intense desire to live and progress according to God's law.

One of the first things I did was to put the children in the Christian Science Sunday school. The next was to throw all of our medicines into the ash barrel. Several health books were consigned to the furnace, and then I settled down to the study of this Christ Science with an eagerness and determination of purpose which bore immediate fruits. I was not satisfied, however, until I had purchased and read all of Mrs. Eddy's writings and had subscribed for all the Christian Science periodicals; consequently, during the past thirteen years we have learned how to overcome every phase of sickness which has presented itself to us, including grip, influenza, heart trouble, astigmatism, measles, sore throat, and various attacks of sickness which we made no attempt to name. During these years we have never been tempted to resort to the use of material medicine or drugs of any name or nature; we did, however, apply our understanding of Christian Science, and received the promise of health every time, followed by a greater sense of harmony and freedom than we had ever experienced under other modes of treatment.

Bringing up a family in Christian Science has been an illuminating unfoldment, wonderfully progressive for the children, and with a wonderful degree of freedom for the mother, freedom from superstition, fear, heredity, and so-called material laws of limitation. During a period of about four years, in which I was obliged to be separated from my family through the day, the only housekeeper and homemaker I was able to give them were the Bible and the Christian Science textbook. Instead of this separation being an affliction, the trying circumstances connected with it were overcome with the aid of the study of the daily LessonSermon, which gave us many valuable proofs of the protecting power and ever presence of good in every case of emergency. I cannot help looking back with a overflowing with gratitude to the steps that have been taken since our rebirth in Christian Science, and this gratitude increases as I realize that our human footsteps were guided and guarded by the divine Mind through the ever active ministry of the Christian Science periodicals, which in their universality have also proved to be the individual stepping-stones to the Bible and Science and Health.

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