Testimony of Healing September 29, 1923 Issue

I began to look into Christian Science in 1902, with no...

Margaret Dall

I began to look into Christian Science in 1902, with no hope of finding any good in it. I only wanted to see what I could find wrong. I had been a member of an established church for many years, but was not satisfied with its teaching. I had been brought up to attend the Sunday school and the Bible class and to read the Bible; but the Bible was a closed book, for I could not understand it. I simply had no church, no God, no hope; and the Bible was put away for weeks at a time. I had been in this condition for a long time. I watched the newspapers for any criticism of Christian Science.

The sound logic, love, and gentleness expressed in a letter, in answer to criticism, appealed to me. I resolved to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" honestly, and if I did not understand it to be content to leave it to others who did. Several months passed. I did not seem to make any progress; yet I could not leave it.

Something always made me turn back to it. One night, after everything had gone wrong with me during the day, I opened Science and Health aimlessly at the words on page 485: "Emerge gently from matter into Spirit. Think not to thwart the spiritual ultimate of all things, but come naturally into Spirit through better health and morals and as the result of spiritual growth." I had read them before, but they had such a message of encouragement for me that night, it was like a ray of light. I then turned to the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation (pp. 16, 17). I read until I came to the statement, "God is omnipotent, supreme," and no farther. The thought came with such conviction: God is all; there is nothing else. This is the truth.

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