Testimony of Healing August 11, 1923 Issue

From childhood I yearned for a scientific, practical...

Grace Reynolds

From childhood I yearned for a scientific, practical understanding of God. I felt that this understanding existed, if I might but find it. Eagerly I looked forward to the time when I should attend college at a denominational school, where I should have excellent advantages for religious study, hoping there I should find a satisfactory answer to life's problems. Inwardly I rebelled against the teachings of the church of which I was a member. I longed to know a God whom I could understand; I longed for an understanding of prayer which was logical and practical. After two years' work at college I left, not only unspeakably disappointed because I had failed to find the truth, but also a physical and nervous wreck.

Five long years of suffering followed, each year adding increased hopelessness and despair. Three operations, including two very severe and painful operations on the throat, change of climate, both to the West and to southern Florida, allopathic, homeopathic, osteopathic, chiropractic, and electric treatments, were some of the material aids resorted to. Bitter and resentful against the only thought of God I had ever known, a God who sends or at least permits sickness, I became churchless and prayerless.

When material means had been drained to the dregs, I was forced to turn to Christian Science as a last resort. Humbly I went to a practitioner and asked to be told something of her religion. Joyfully surprised, I drank in her explanation of a God who is always good, always present, always loving, who imparts nothing but good to His chil dren, for He has nothing but good to impart. For two years I read nothing but Christian Science lieterature, devouring the truth as greedily as a starving person devours a morsel. Never a doubt as to the certainty that it was the truth I had been seeking crossed my thought. The physical healing has seemed slow, but thereby I have been forced to labor and to love. Many problems are yet to be worked out, but in my few years in Christian Science I have often had the experience of pain and suffering fading away, fear turned to peace, and hatred to love. Sickness and weakness have been gradually but permanently changed to a measure of health and strength.

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