Testimony of Healing December 23, 1933 Issue

With sincerest gratitude I send this testimony of the...

Laura A. Fuller

With sincerest gratitude I send this testimony of the healing and sustaining power of Christian Science. From early childhood I had vainly sought an explanation of various Bible statements, and as I grew older I wandered through a maze of theories endeavoring to find a practical religion. Up to the age of twenty-four I was considered exceptionally strong, but at that age, while teaching, I experienced a nervous breakdown. The physician whom we called said that I should not be able to go on with my work; but I disregarded his advice, and after a short period of rest continued for two years. I realize now that it was will-power which seemed to support me through the intervening years, which were loaded with heavy responsibilities; I assumed much of the care of my parents, as well as that of my own family.

Shortly after my mother passed on, I came down with nervous prostration. Then I tried more earnestly than ever before to find God. My prayer was answered by a neighbor casually remarking that Christian Scientists seem to know more about God than many other religious people. From that moment the journey Spiritward began for me. This kind lady was not a Christian Scientist, but she made an appointment with a practitioner to call at my home that day. During that first visit, as the practitioner explained the teachings of Christian Science, I realized that I had found that for which I had been searching all my life. She kindly secured the textbook for me to read.

Shortly after this we went to the mountains. As I began to read, frequently a feeling of great fear would sweep over me, and one afternoon this forced me to close the book. As I was rising to put it away something compelled me to sit down again and open to page 410 where Mrs. Eddy says: "The Apostle John says: 'There is no fear in Love, but perfect Love casteth out fear.' " The words stood out. I closed the book calmly and decided to take a little walk down the canon road, but I had not gone very far before I realized that I was seeing the world as I had never seen it before. It was a familiar scene, but I had never beheld the real beauty of it until now. There was a sense of complete peace and harmony, and the realization of the fact that there is no separation in divine Mind came to me clearly. The grief at my mother's passing on was healed. The pathway since that time, eighteen years ago, has had its steep, places. Mortal beliefs in many phases have had to be overcome. The nervous condition yielded slowly, but the healing was permanent.

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