Testimony of Healing June 22, 1946 ISSUE

In gratitude to God, and with...

Percie Stella Matlock

In gratitude to God, and with the sincere desire that my experience may help others struggling with a similar problem, I give this testimony.

In the Christian Science textbook. Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, we find this question (p. 266): "Would existence without personal friends be to you a blank?" For many years after I began the study of Christian Science I avoided answering this question. I even avoided reading it, for it seemed to me that existence would indeed be a blank to me without my dear ones. But as I grew in the understanding of this Science, I began to realize that I was not doing right. I knew that Science and Health was written through inspiration; that all of it was to be read, studied, lived, and loved; and that I had no right to avoid reading any part of it. So I began to face that question, and I realized that the answer was "No": that existence could never be a blank while I had God and some understanding of Christian Science. Later came the testing time, when one very dear to me passed on after a brief illness.

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