Testimony of Healing January 30, 1926 Issue

My deep gratitude to God and to our beloved Leader for...

Marie Derl Schreier

My deep gratitude to God and to our beloved Leader for Christian Science cannot be measured by any words I could write, for it brought me out of darkness into light. I had all but lost my faith in God, as I knew Him, and nothing seemed to satisfy my insatiable longing for an ever present, ever loving God.

I feel that I was divinely led. For almost fourteen years we had a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy in our home. This was given to my father when I was a girl by a grateful friend whom he had led to Science, and who was healed. I had read some in this book when my father first received it, but it was laid away as something over our heads. A few years ago I resigned my position here merely as the outcome of a desire to get somewhere, in a material sense. I was always striving to be satisfied, but the human plans I made went awry. The position I eventually took in Chicago placed me among girls who were Christian Scientists. The first meal I age in my new environment was with a strange girl who asked me if I would like to go to church that Wednesday evening. It was blessed Christian Science church; and coming away from that blessed meeting I knew I had found the "bread of life." That night I wrote home for our copy of Science and Health, and to-day this book is my most treasured possession.

To be grateful only for finding the way would seem remiss, for since coming into Science I have just begun to live. I have always had material means to make me happy, but they never seemed to make the joy last. In Science my joy is never ending, for I have God. With the help of a loving practitioner I have been healed of astigmatism which necessitated my wearing glasses. I am also grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a Christian Science Society, and each day finds me thankful for the healing of seeming defects in character.

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