Testimony of Healing August 27, 1921 Issue

Through the study of Christian Science and the aid of...

Hattie A. McGeorge

Through the study of Christian Science and the aid of faithful, patient Christian Scientists, and the help of our periodicals I have been delivered from many discordant conditions. I subscribed for the Monitor and Sentinel several years ago, and last year I felt I must also have the Journal. At that time I was holding a temporary position in one of the government departments in Washington, District of Columbia, and although friends were trying to have it made permanent, there seemed to be very little hope, but I clung to the little hope held out to me, and tried to know that my right place would be revealed to me. Afterwards, however, I knew I had only been outlining that my right place should be a government position, for when I was finally told that they could not retain me, I was as one without hope, and pride and fear took hold of me. I wondered how I could ever tell my friends, and there was one family in particular that I said I would not tell if I could possibly help it.

I even shrank from going to the practitioner who had helped me so much, for error argued, "What more can be said?" On my way home I began to slowly wake up, and tried to recall some helpful thought. Then I remembered that the practitioner had so often told me to rejoice, but I only said to myself that this was the hardest thing I had ever been given to do. How could I rejoice when everything looked so dark and hopeless? But something seemed to whisper, "You can at least say the word." I began doing this, and very soon this verse came with healing to my troubled thought, "Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." This was Saturday evening, and on Monday evening I went to the practitioner, and I found there was something more to be said. I came away greatly strengthened and comforted. On the following Monday evening the very friend whom I had felt I could not tell of my distress, called me over the telephone and told me of a position in one of the banks of the city, and advised me to go the next day and see about it. This I did, and the following Monday I went to work there. I am very grateful for Christian Science, and to all who have helped me.—(Miss) Hattie A. McGeorge, Fort Myer Heights, Virginia.

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