Testimony of Healing October 29, 1927 Issue

I am grateful for Christian Science

Ethnie C. Money

I am grateful for Christian Science. It has given me a changed outlook on life; it has given me friends where I seemed to have none; it has enabled me to face life with courage whereas before I had a despairing dread of life; and, most precious gift of all, it has given me a God whom I can understand, instead of an unknown God.

The religious teaching I received as a child merely roused in me a sense of opposition, and I began at an early age to deny this teaching. I studied other religions, and a number of agnostic writings, and tried at the same time to lead a moral life. The shock of my mother's death, following that of a very beloved brother, led me finally to deny God. I saw no good in anything and no reason to be good.

When Christian Science first came to me, and I saw the healing of a much loved baby, my sister's child, I just cried out, "Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." During the next three years I was trying to lay hold of Christianity in the old theoretical sense, instead of trying to understand Christian Science, and difficulties and depression seemed to increase. But at last I came to a turning of the ways. In the darkest hour I turned to The Mother Church in Boston, divinely guided. It was Joseph Armstrong's book on the building of The Mother Church that served as an inspiration to this step. I can never be too grateful for this experience, wherein I began to learn Christian Science aright, and to experience a regeneration of health and happiness. I am grateful for the loving work of a practitioner and for the help of friends. Above all I am grateful for class instruction from one who is a loyal student of Mrs. Eddy. Through an awakened sense of gratitude, and "the first spontaneous motion of Truth and Love" (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 31), I recognized that to doubt was to deny God, and I claimed the right to say with the Apostle Paul, "I know whom I have believed."

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