Testimony of Healing February 5, 1938 Issue

At the outbreak of the war, in 1914, I was living in a...

Gladys Garvin Shatts

At the outbreak of the war, in 1914, I was living in a Canadian city. Relatives and friends marched away, and at the same time a dear friend passed on suddenly. My reaction to all this was what doctors call a nervous breakdown. Weeping days and sleepless nights made life seem not worth living. A kind doctor prescribed tonics and six weeks' rest in a different environment. I followed his advice, but when I came home all the trouble returned.

However, while away from home I had taken time to think more of spiritual things than I had for some time. While dwelling on what I could remember of the religious training I had received as a child, I seemed often to think of one sister who was a Christian Scientist. Up to that time my attitude toward Science was one of amused tolerance. However, in my extremity, thoughts of that sister's calm solving of problems kept recurring, and I resolved to look into Christian Science. Soon after my return home, when I seemed no better, I went to my sister and humbly asked her to help me. Her reply was, "If you have faith enough to ask for help, you have faith enough to receive help." That night I slept like a child, awakening in the morning with a sense of buoyancy and confidence in God's power which has never left me. From that day I have been a student of Christian Science. It is indeed the "pearl of great price." It has been a joy to have a practical, demonstrable religion to teach my five children and to see how they prove its availability in their daily lives.

I am grateful for the privilege of serving this Cause in any way that unfolds to me; for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church; for class instruction, which has brought a clearer sense of man's dominion; and for the many channels so lovingly provided by our Leader for the giving out of this truth.

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