Testimony of Healing January 29, 1938 Issue

It is sometimes good to look back to find how much one...

Mary A. Orr

It is sometimes good to look back to find how much one has grown, and it is most interesting to note the change in one's concept of gratitude.

Over thirty years ago I had for a number of years been the victim of nervous prostration, which grew no better under the ministrations of the physicians, for neither medicine, diet, nor sanitariums can help a diseased mind, unable to help itself. I prayed constantly and finally frantically to God, but believing that for some mysterious reason He was the author of this agony, I received neither comfort nor health. One day, out of curiosity I read that wonderful, inspired book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I got just one thought out of it, and that was that God did not want me to die; that He sent only good to His children, never evil.

I was filled with a new hope and interest, and from that moment I began to gain in both health and happiness. The whole tenor of my life changed, as was inevitable and natural, with my awakened consciousness. As Isaiah said, "Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily." I thought then I knew what gratitude was; but I know now I only glimpsed its meaning, for I looked too much to physical manifestations.

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