Testimony of Healing January 9, 1926 Issue

It is my privilege to testify to the healing power of the...

Mabel L. Bridges with contributions from Ernest W. Bridges

It is my privilege to testify to the healing power of the truth, as taught and demonstrated in Christian Science. When Christian Science was first presented to me, I was suffering from long-continued extreme nervous weakness, complicated by heart trouble, caused, according to medical theory, by the frequent attacks of influenza to which I was subject. As my fear of the disease, and the fear of others in the household for me, increased, so did the illness, until it seemed as if I were hardly about after one attack before another was upon me. I had the attention of various medical men, including a specialist, who agreed that my health would improve only when I was free from influenza; but just how I was to be freed they were powerless to say. Injections were discussed, but refused as being more likely to do harm than good.

I had reached a very despairing and resentful state of thought when a friend invited me to look into Christian Science and see what it could do for me. At first I was inclined to ridicule the idea, but consented to see a Christian Scientist and hear what he had to say on the subject. On his first visit, he presented the truth so clearly to me that I was immediately convinced that here indeed was something worth looking into. For years, I had suffered many doubts and fears in regard to religion as I then understood it; and although outwardly a consistent church member, inwardly I was continually harassed and perplexed by the seeming inconsistencies of much that I had been taught. I longed to understand what God really is and my relationship to Him. My one real prayer for many years was, "Help thou mine unbelief;" and I constantly said to myself, "Oh that I knew where I might find him!"

From the moment I definitely took up the study of Christian Science I began to find answers to the questions which had so long puzzled me; and as my understanding grew and peace of mind took the place of the continual torture of mortal fear, so my physical troubles fell away, until I was entirely free. Whereas at one time, and for a long period, my walks abroad were extremely limited, I now frequently, when on holiday, walk between ten and fifteen miles, with no ill effects whatever, but rejoicing in the truth which makes us free.

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