Whenever I read the testimonies in the Journal and Sentinel...

Ellen Hughes

Whenever I read the testimonies in the Journal and Sentinel I feel humble gratitude to God for what He is doing for His children. The thought comes that God made all, and for His "pleasure they are and were created;" therefore, all these things are for the glory of God. Then comes the question, Why do I not join, and let the world know what Christian Science has done for me and mine since March, 1891, when I was instantaneously healed of ailments too numerous to mention?

From childhood I had been an earnest student of the Bible, had a great desire to know God aright, and believed He answered prayer. I always turned to God with the simplest problems in my daily life. But I was very sensitive—afraid to have my nearest kin know that I read the Bible or that I prayed; so I read in my bedroom at night and also at a very desolate place under a rocky cliff on the farm where I was raised. One day, while there I was reading and pondering about Jesus, how he healed the sick and commanded his disciples to heal, the thought came to me that the church to which I belonged did not practice what Jesus taught. I fell on my knees and prayed earnestly to God to show me the way. The realization of the nothingness of matter as real, or substance, came to me. The vision frightened me, and I went home fearing that I was losing my reason; and I never had courage to go back to that spot again. I had evidently asked for more than I was ready to receive. That was about the year 1885, and at that time I had never heard of Christian Science.

When studying the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I learned that our dear Leader had received the full message, the allness of God as well as the nothingness of matter, and that there is no vacuum; my heart seemed as if it would burst within me with joy, and I felt a great reverence and love for Mrs. Eddy. Naturally, I never once doubted that Christian Science is the Comforter that Jesus promised.

Our five children were born without the least pain or inconvenience, and without other aid than our own understanding gained by the study of the Bible and Science and Health. The children have never known or desired any other help than Christian Science, and four of them are members of The Mother Church.

Through my own understanding of God and His relation to man, in the year 1904 I was completely healed, in six week's time, of paralysis and rupture caused by being caught in a landslide and buried up to my waist beneath tons of earth for several hours. While I was still under it, my confidence in God kept me free from fear and nervousness. When a neighbor upon visiting me said that I should never walk again, instantly the words, "I know that my redeemer liveth," came to me and were a living help to me through the rest of this experience. Broken arms, broken shin bone, broken collar bone, broken nose and ankle, burns, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, pneumonia, typhoid fever, grippe, influenza, sorrow, and many other discords have also been healed in our family.

I became a member of The Mother Church in 1898, and later of a branch church. In 1907 I had class instruction by one of Mrs. Eddy's students. The joy of knowing that all things are possible with God through His word, Christian Science, is a greater blessing than all else.

(Mrs.) Ellen Hughes, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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