Testimony of Healing June 2, 1934 Issue

I should like to express gratitude for the wonderful peace...

Anne Marjorie Young

I should like to express gratitude for the wonderful peace which has come to me through the study of Christian Science. Before I became a student of this Science I spent many unhappy years in the search for Truth. Not finding in various orthodox churches a God whom I could love and understand, I became convinced that there was no God. I then sought the truth in the speculative philosophies. Needless to say, I could not find it there. The way grew so dark that I even tried to take my own life in order to end the intolerable mental suffering.

I wish I might say that when Christian Science was first lovingly presented to me I accepted it at once. But such was not the case. The explanation sounded so simple that my overstimulated intellect refused even to consider it. Several more years of intense mental suffering followed, years in which I learned that the source of truth is not the human brain. On page 262 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says, "Every concept which seems to begin with the brain begins falsely."

Then followed a period in which I began to have revelations of Truth. I loved these heavenly messengers but was disturbed by the apparent haphazardness of their coming. One day the thought presented itself that there is nothing haphazard about Christian Science. Instantly the desire was there to investigate and to know more about it. I cannot begin to tell the peace that followed this investigation. Old fears began to slip away, and doubt, that hydra-headed monster, was always silenced with the words, "Be still, and know that I am God." Oh, that blessed word "know"; not speculate, but "know"!

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