Testimony of Healing June 9, 1934 Issue

As the years go by my gratitude to God for some understanding...

Agnes Christine Fraser

As the years go by my gratitude to God for some understanding of Christian Science increases more and more.

In 1917 I was at the stage when I had lost faith in God as I then understood Him. I had taught in the Sunday school of an orthodox church since I was sixteen, and as I grew older I was keenly interested in church work; yet, when faced with sorrow and in great bodily suffering, I found no comfort from my religion.

After leaving a nursing home, which I had made arrangements to enter for an operation, as soon as there was a vacancy, I was divinely led to go to a Christian Science Reading Room, and to borrow a copy of the textbook. I obeyed this leading, not with the slightest hope of being physically healed, but through curiosity to know in what way this religion differed from mine, and with, perhaps, a faint hope of finding some help for my very disturbed state of thought. After reading earnestly for two weeks I felt that I must own this wonderful book, as I had found something I had missed all my life in my religion. I read and reread the chapter on Prayer, for here I learned of God, to whom I could pray. The Bible seemed a new book in the light of that chapter. During that first week I was healed of the smoking habit.

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