Testimony of Healing January 4, 1930 Issue

About eighteen years ago I turned to Christian Science...

Henrietta P. Young

About eighteen years ago I turned to Christian Science because I was very unhappy, owing to the loss of our only child. When he passed away I felt that I was indeed left desolate, as we had tried in every way to save him, even, as a last resort, having Christian Science treatment for him. But, apparently, even Christian Science had failed. However, I see now that Christian Science did not fail: I failed to understand and rightly demonstrate it.

During the years following, I came into contact at various times with friends interested in Christian Science, who, I realize now, influenced me very much for good. One friend offered to lend me her copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and to please her I accepted it. I glanced through it hastily, and at the end of two days returned it. Then the friend, not discouraged by my lack of interest, invited me to visit thew practitioner who was helping her; and I did so. Never have I forgotten how graciously the practitioner received me and answered my searching questions.

Finally there came a time in my life when I was at the crossroads, and then, at last, I saw how much I needed Christian Science. So I bought Science and Health and began ardently to study it and to attend church services. But I had much to learn. I had to learn how to temper my zeal and rightly to help others. And this was not easy; for at the outset I committed the mistake that many other impetuous young Scientists have committed—the mistake of thinking that I could immediately convert all my friends and relatives to Christian Science as soon as I told them about it. So I talked and talked, trying to convince them. But of course I did not succeed; and one day, through "overwork," I completely collapsed under an attach of nervous prostration and a great fear of loss of mind, which I was so unwise as to voice.

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