Testimony of Healing December 13, 1941 Issue

For many years I have been a student of Christian Science,...

Charlotte B. Gerber

For many years I have been a student of Christian Science, and during that time I have seen it overcome one discordant condition after another, often instantaneously. A few years ago, however, trials became so multiplied, and recovery so delayed, I was tempted to feel that possibly I had made a mistake by placing so much faith in my religion. Indeed, it took many months of struggle to re-establish my confidence.

The financial depression was at its lowest point when I found myself plunged into discordant conditions worse than any I had ever before experienced. I lost home, position, place in the community, and association with family and friends. Further, it seemed necessary to move to a city unfamiliar and strange, where associates were different from those among whom I had been accustomed to live. I had been a member of the Christian Science church for many years, and had found this Science capable of meeting all my needs. I had also been an active worker in a branch church, carrying on the various activities as faithfully as possible, yet it seemed to me that Christian Science was not capable of preventing this disaster, for I appeared to be in a worse condition than those about me who were not interested in Science. Self-pity, resentment, and fear occupied my thought, and consequently many months passed without much change in circumstances.

Faithful friends came to my assistance, attempting to arouse my dormant understanding. One day, when reading an unfamiliar hymn in the then new Christian Science Hymnal, I felt reassured and awakened. I realized that my troubles were all in my thinking, and I began at once to turn my thoughts toward definite steps of reconstruction. I was a member of a distant branch church, and for this reason had long been inactive in church work. Now it seemed right to take steps toward joining the church in the vicinity where I was living.

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