Testimony of Healing June 23, 1934 Issue

Before I knew anything about the teachings of Christian Science...

Marion I. Weeks

Before I knew anything about the teachings of Christian Science I was very unhappy and cynical in my attitude toward life. Everything in my experience seemed to be going wrong, and I was defeated in whatever I attempted. The church in which I had been brought up had ceased to mean anything to me while I was still in high school; and when I first began to give serious attention to the textbook of Christian Science I had not attended church for about twelve years. As a result of my reading and studying Science and Health and applying its teachings, together with help given by a Christian Science practitioner, all of the unhappy conditions of my life have changed radically, so that I feel like one who has been pulled up out of a pit, in which he had been struggling blindly, and has been placed on high ground.

The thought of the one Mind was the first great source of comfort to me. I found three passages in Science and Health which I studied daily for many months. The thought of God as Principle, working through law, has also helped me greatly. With the help of a practitioner, I have been healed of influenza, of a depleted physical condition which I believed and greatly feared was tuberculosis, because a brother had passed on with this disease, and of hemorrhages of the nose, which frightened me badly because another brother had passed on with a disease known as hemophilia within a week after beginning to manifest the same symptom. I have also been healed of many other ills, which never got beyond the stage of being minor, because they were met promptly and wholly by Christian Science treatment.

The work of a Christian Science practitioner has been of great help to me in passing a series of five examinations, both oral and written, and in interviewing strangers in positions of authority. With the help of a practitioner I have been able to speak before professional groups on two occasions, and through this severe test I learned something of the power that lies in knowing the presence of the one Mind. On a third occasion, when I had to speak before a group of people with special interests, I was steadily trying to quiet my fears by knowing the truth. Finally the thought came to me, "Ye cannot serve God and mammon," and with this thought the fears were broken, and I was able to speak with ease and a feeling of pleasure.

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