Testimony of Healing August 9, 1924 Issue

A sermon preached by an eminent archbishop to warn...

Beatrice C. Talbot

A sermon preached by an eminent archbishop to warn the public against Christian Science and Mrs. Eddy was the influence that drew me to investigate this religion. Although I knew nothing about the subject or its Discoverer and Founder, the attack was such that all that was just within me sprang up in Mrs. Eddy's defense; and before I left the church I had determined to know something about it.

"Desire is prayer" is one of the statements on the first page of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and this fact was exemplified in my experience; for on the following day an old friend called on me. I had not seen her for some years, but had heard that she had become a Christian Scientist. I told her of the sermon and asked for an explanation. Her clear, simple words satisfied me; and I arranged to go with her to the next Wednesday evening testimony meeting. Before the meeting was over I knew I had found that for which I had been looking for years. I bought the book that night and read till one o'clock next morning. Never had I experienced such happiness. This was many years ago; and although there have been difficult and sad human struggles, that fundamental joy has never been dislodged.

The vision once revealed has to be established in consciousness through individual proof. The testimonies of these proofs are of incalculable value to our fellow-men for mutual encouragement and enlightenment, as evidenced by the healings at the testimony meetings and through reading the testimonies in the periodicals.

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