Testimony of Healing October 20, 1923 Issue

In 1911, after a great sorrow in my family, I was taken...

Juliet H. Edmond

In 1911, after a great sorrow in my family, I was taken ill with a severe nervous breakdown, and was filled with fear. I was afraid of everything; in fact, at times I was even made blind by it. I was very much depressed and morbid, and felt impelled to end my life. In my agony I cried out to God to save me; and the answer came. I began to reason with myself that the doctors had been unable to help me, and I knew that medicine could not reach my thought; so I asked to see a Christian Science practitioner. She came to me after I had had a day of weeping and great mental upheaval, and began to tell me about God. Much that she said was the direct opposite of what I had been taught; yet I knew it to be the truth, and loved it from the first moment it entered my consciousness. Before leaving she gave me a treatment, and my whole outlook on life changed. The next day I was up, after having been in bed a month under medical treatment; and this caused much astonishment among friends and in the community. I was given "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, to read, and I clung to it as a drowning man clings to a rock; indeed, it was life to me. By degrees the old thoughts were replaced by those I got from the Bible and Science and Health, and I was healed.

During the intervening years I have passed through many wonderful and inspiring experiences, and the blessings which have come have been so rich and abundant that I find nothing in life worth striving for but a greater knowledge of the truth. It is impossible to express my deep gratitude for the Word which has reached me through Christ Jesus' teachings and Mrs. Eddy's writings; and I trust that I may so order my life that I shall be found worthy to receive always greater proofs of God's love, and that this reflection may help to brighten the paths of others who are also reaching out for heaven.

(Miss) Juliet H. Edmond, Florence, Italy.

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