Testimony of Healing January 31, 1931 Issue

All my life I had believed in the power of love, but not...

Esther Hough

All my life I had believed in the power of love, but not knowing the difference between the divine and the human, I had never found a love that would stand the test; and, consequently, my life had been one disappointment after another, until I was afraid to hope for anything good for fear of being disappointed. But even then, when my son became ill, I thought my love might save him; but it did not. I had come in contact with Christian Science, but did not think of studying it for myself until several months after my son passed on. It seemed as if I could not possibly go on. For years life had been for me merely "playing the game" for his sake; and now I did not have him for an incentive.

I was a member of a small moving picture company, and one of the actors was being healed of tuberculosis through Christian Science. He invited me to attend a church service with him. I wish I could describe what that service meant to me. I thought the silent prayer the most eloquent thing one could possibly think of. Just between God and me! That was all. This experience was the turning point in my life. I had found the God who is Love and the Love that is God and can never fail.

To know that Love was the Principle of life and that my happiness, health, and success were not at the mercy of circumstance, person, or place, but that this divine Principle was mine to use every minute in the day, and that how much or how little I accepted of it dependent only on me, brought peace and assurance to my troubled heart. I knew then and there that here was my only chance for happiness, and that I would be happy, for I had found that which was real—something that I could never lose.

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