Testimony of Healing July 18, 1942 Issue

Many years ago, finding myself...

Orsina Gray Thompson

Many years ago, finding myself submerged in the complexities of bondage to human relationship, blinded by worldly beliefs, tortured with apprehension as to the future as well as by self-condemnation for the past, keenly disappointed, and disillusioned as to what life meant, I was driven with an aching heart and tears of self-pity to try to find out something about God.

The instantaneous healing of a member of my immediate family of what appeared to be a fatal disease through the reading of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, encouraged me to begin to read that book, which I had long since shelved because in ignorance I was obsessed with prejudice against Mrs. Eddy and her teachings. Immediately upon beginning to read the textbook I commenced to see improvement in circumstances surrounding my experience. The explanation of the true nature of God satisfied the searching and uncertainty which had always come with the teachings of false theology.

Little by little chains loosened. I was filled with hope, and at times I had glimpses of joy and inspiration which replaced the despair and blackness which before had threatened to engulf me. Inactivity, lack and limitation, as well as fear of the future, began to give way to unfolding plans whereby living has become increasingly full of interest, service, and abundance. I began to realize that wrong notions could be replaced with right ideas, that my true identity and substance were already established in God together with His plan for me, and in humility I could say, "Thy will be done." I saw that I could reverse, deny, and destroy the evidences of material sense and replace them with spiritual ideas from God. I found that my only business was to serve God and to trust Him.

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