Testimony of Healing January 16, 1926 Issue

It is with unspeakable joy that I testify to the healing...

Gladys Garden

It is with unspeakable joy that I testify to the healing power of Christian Science. I was brought up in the Church of England, but as soon as I began to think out things for myself I found that its teaching did not sufficiently apply to my daily needs. For some years I tried to believe all I was taught by those who brought me up; but I never could understand how God could send disasters to His children if He loved them, and neither could I begging in begging God to make me love Him. From my infancy I was made to fear so many things that it is small wonder I became delicate. Throughout my school life it was the same; and I was constantly too ill to share in the sports which my friends enjoyed so much. After I left school I was taken to many doctors and had two operations, but only grew worse. My extremity then became God's opportunity. A friend who was interested in Christian Science asked me to read Mrs. Eddy's textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." I did this to please my friend; but I was evidently not ready for it, for I could not understand it and so put it aside. In this way another years passed by, during which I left my bed only to lie on an invalid chair. By this time I had not much faith in materia medica and was continually seeking for a cure. I read every kind of book on mental healing, and indeed stayed for many weeks with a mental healer and studied under her. But her teaching was not the truth, and it did not heal me; and I had to own that it was useless.

My friends then suggested a sea voyage and a warm climate, and I was sent out to South Africa. There once more I heard of Christian Science, and again I listened; but I could not make up my mind to try it, as all my friends in England seemed so bitterly opposed to it and even informed me that it was not a Christian religion at all. So I turned away again from the "still small voice" of Truth, and started to read theosophy. This, however, seemed incomprehensible, and I soon put the book aside. Just about this time the friend who had first interested me in Christian Science returned from abroad, and on hearing that I was still seeking a cure she again asked me to read Science and Health. I was ill in bed at the time and glad to have some literature. I read the textbook far into the night; and I knew then that I had found the truth for which I had been seeking all those years. Those who have been wandering in darkness for a long time and have come into the light know just what I felt that night. A psalm of grateful joy went up from my heart, and I could only whisper, "My Lord and my God."

From that day started to meet meet all my difficulties from the metaphysical points of view, and am now strong and well. Illnesses, discordant conditions, lack of supply, all are being met and overcome through the understanding that "divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need" (Science and Health, p. 494); and I do not know how I should be able to meet all the problems of life now without the knowledge that God, good, is the only power and presence.

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