Testimony of Healing January 5, 1946 Issue

I am very thankful to God for the...

Kate H. Clements

I am very thankful to God for the peace and joy that the knowledge of Christian Science has brought into my life. This knowledge came to me at a time when I seemed to have lost everything good—my dearest friend (my mother), home, and health—and I did not know where to turn to be rid of depressing thoughts. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we read (p. 265): "Who that has felt the loss of human peace has not gained stronger desires for spiritual joy? The aspiration after heavenly good comes even before we discover what belongs to wisdom and Love. The loss of earthly hopes and pleasures brightens the ascending path of many a heart. The pains of sense quickly inform us that the pleasures of sense are mortal and that joy is spiritual."

I was a member of the Church of England, but at this time was feeling very unsettled and dissatisfied, and had been going around to different services in the hope of getting some help. Then a friend lent me Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and Health, simply saying she thought I might like to read it. I started to do so that evening, and read the Preface and the chapter on Prayer. What I read made me feel glad. I loved the thoughts in this book, and read on at every opportunity to the end.

I had no thought of bodily healing, and indeed would not have expected such a thing to take place. I had been under medical treatment for fifteen months, and was taking three different kinds of medicine. Now I had a great desire to try to get along without it. Could it be possible to get better without medicine? Such an event seemed to me at that time too wonderful to occur. But to my surprise I was healed, and on that first evening, although it was a few days before the joyous realization came to me. I have not taken medicine since that day, ten years ago.

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