Testimony of Healing March 2, 1935 Issue

All my life I had been a member of a church, but about...

Mary C. Redford

All my life I had been a member of a church, but about seven years ago a most distressing and serious nervous condition so overwhelmed me that I turned to various ologies and isms, trying to find comfort and healing, but none came to me. One day, after I had passed through many trying ordeals, both physical and mental, a friend recommended that I read Science and Health. Although ignorant as to what Mrs. Eddy had written, I began reading her textbook, deciding that perhaps my scoffing was due to the fact that I had never studied her writings. I opened this textbook with an unbiased thought and began reading. I had not read very far in the chapter on Prayer when I realized that I had found the "pearl of great price," the truth, that for which I had been longing; and that truth has been a wonderful revelation to me.

Recently I became very much upset over a seemingly unjust act of a friend, and resentment so affected me that I became ill with a cold. I suffered severely for two days and was so disturbed, knowing that it had been brought on by wrong thinking and that I should have to change this thinking before I could be healed, that I called for help from a practitioner. The help was lovingly given and I began to clear my thoughts; and on the morning of the third day, as I awoke, these words from one of our hymns came to me:

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