Testimony of Healing May 3, 1947 Issue

I wish to express gratitude for...

Laura Clark Atkinson

I wish to express gratitude for a growing understanding and appreciation of what the work of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, means to the world today. The reading of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which she wrote, has brought mental, moral, physical, and financial benefit to me, and will bless all who will study and accept the teaching of Christian Science.

Thirty-five years ago I was living in a Midwest city, almost within the shadow of a Christian Science church. When its chimes played I had a sense of resentment; they seemed to be calling me, and I was resolved not to go. Then my husband was persuaded to buy a house out of town, where we could spend the summers, and we moved away from the chimes.

A housekeeper was engaged for the country place, but she did not come; whereupon a Christian Science friend sent out her houseman to tide me over for a few days. Upon his arrival the whole atmosphere of the house changed. I had run away from the chimes, and here was a gentle, understanding man who came, bringing with him all the books and literature a Scientist should have, among them The Christian Science Monitor. Much could be written about the "silent lesson" of his "good example." In "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 126) Mrs. Eddy says, "No reproof is so potent as the silent lesson of a good example." That day I began my journey from sense to Soul.

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