Testimony of Healing December 11, 1948 Issue

Beginning the study and sincere...

Mary E. Howland

Beginning the study and sincere application of the teachings of Christian Science has been the most constructive step, humanly and spiritually, of my experience. This blessing came to me while I was visiting friends in Los Angeles in the summer of 1941. Very much in need of spiritual illumination at the time, I was led one afternoon to a window display in one of the Christian Science Reading Rooms and was sufficiently awakened by the selections seen there from the Bible and from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy to go inside and talk a while with the librarian. This kind woman answered all my questions so clearly that I felt instinctively that this was the religion for which I had been looking, and that same afternoon I engaged the services of a Christian Science practitioner.

As I look back upon this entrance into a new way of thinking and going, I am once again thankful to have found this way of life just before our beloved country faced a great war. At this time I was confronted with a serious readjustment after losing my home and all that pertained thereto, and I was going into the business world without benefit of practical training and with great lack of confidence. Although my efforts were complicated by frequent attacks of nervous depression causing extreme irritability, moodiness, and unhappy human relationships, these clouds of human belief lifted as I began to accept the truths set forth in Christian Science and to apply them in daily living.

I should like to express my gratitude for the healing of smoking. I had been smoking up to two packages of cigarettes a day when the healing took place. And it took place without conscious effort on my part when I desired above everything else to be a member of a Christian Science church. I believe that this pure desire was rewarded in the breaking of this bondage.

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