Testimony of Healing January 1, 1927 Issue

When the subject of Christian Science was first brought...

Jean Herbert

When the subject of Christian Science was first brought to my attention, about six years ago, I thought that I took a great interest in it, as I loved to investigate points in metaphysics; and the book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy seemed to me to give a defensible and consistent explanation of the Bible. But at that time I only perceived the letter of Christian Science and completely overlooked its spirit; so that it remained for me an interesting theory, probably true, but without my seeing any need for its practical application.

It was several years later that I was led to seek for something more in it. At that time I had to face an unusually grave problem, which human means seemed totally inadequate to solve. I remembered the name of a practitioner of whom I had heard years before, and I sought her help. She guided my first steps on the way from sense to Soul with devoted and untiring effort; and every time I saw her she revealed a new and to me unsuspected aspect of my problem, and gave me a rich supply of food for thought. The demonstration became apparent only after eighteen months' work, during which the mornings of confidence and hope were separated by fewer and fewer evenings of weariness and doubt.

The feeling of anxiety was first to leave me, as soon as I understood our Leader's injunction: "Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee. Therefore despair not nor murmur, for that which seeketh to save, to heal, and to deliver, will guide thee, if thou seekest this guidance" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 149, 150). Then, as faults and mistakes were one by one discovered and fought until overcome, there grew confidence, assurance, faith, and finally the desire that His will, not mine, should be done. I am grateful that I had to wait such a long time before the demonstration was made, as during all those months I had to make a detailed inventory of all that needed correction and humbly undertake the work of correcting.

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