Testimony of Healing April 13, 1946 Issue

I feel the time has come to...

Margaret C. Fielder

I feel the time has come to testify, with profound gratitude, to what Christian Science has done for me since it came to my aid when I was in dire need nearly fifteen years ago.

From childhood I had never been strong, and had had frequent medical attention for various complaints. I relied very largely on will power to keep me going and enable me to qualify for a profession which I felt to be my vocation, but which my father considered too strenuous for me. Then my girlhood home was lost to me, and later on anxiety for one near to me and a deep personal grief were added to all this. I completely broke down, after struggling against nervous exhaustion and insomnia as long as I could and with the best medical aid. Many months and much money were expended in a desperate effort to recover. Although the orthodox religion in which I had been reared seemed utterly unable to help me, yet I felt there must be a way out, and prayed blindly for help. Then Christian Science was presented to me, and when faced with the ultimatum of returning to work in a specified time or losing my job, I clutched at it as my last hope.

Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy was put in my hands, and as I read hope and joy indescribable filled my thought, which had been so despairing. After a struggle with what seemed to be loyalty to the church of my upbringing, I wrote to a practitioner for help. This resulted in my being able to leave the hospital where I had been for some time and resume work straightway. Through her unfailing help and my own earnest study I was able to keep on, and gradually the cruel symptoms receded until their power over me was gone. I indeed saw the truth of the words (Rev. 21:5), "Behold, I make all things new." I began to live a life busier and more active than I should have dreamed possible. I recommenced the course for a university examination which I had had to abandon, and passed it. The way opened for me to have a pleasant home of my own, and I was privileged to join a branch church in response to the command (Matt. 10:8), "Freely ye have received, freely give."

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