Testimony of Healing November 1, 1947 Issue

When Christian Science was presented...

Leonora W. Ritzman with contributions from Virginia Atherton

When Christian Science was presented to me nineteen Years ago, I felt it was an answer to prayer, for I had prayed long and earnestly for light on the perplexities of life. I had recognized the seemingly perfect law in nature, which pointed to an intelligent order: but what of man, who seemed to be lacking in all order except to be born and die? Had he no mission, no purpose? The Scriptures confused me, and the advice to trust and leave it all to God failed to quiet my thoughts.

When first given some of the truths of Christian Science by a neighbor, I knew I had received meat and not husks, and with a glad heart I turned again to the Scriptures. With the aid of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy it became a new book to me, a book in which, though yet faintly, I felt the former mysteries clearing up. Mrs. Eddy writes on page 476 of Science and Health. "Learn this, O mortal, and earnestly seek the spiritual status of man, which is outside of all material selfhood."

My first experience in proving the presence of Love, as revealed in Christian Science, came after only one month's study.

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