Testimony of Healing April 8, 1950 ISSUE

In the hope that someone may...

A. Bertha Conyngham

In the hope that someone may be helped by my experiences when first coming into Christian Science, I submit the following.

Shortly after commencing this study, I borrowed the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy from a Christian Science Reading Room. I read it through and thought it very exacting in its demands upon members. Later I said to those in my home: "I could never become a member of that Church; its laws are far too exacting. But I shall keep on reading because I find it helpful and beautiful." A few years later I went to the Reading Room and looked through the Church Manual again. I searched for the Rules I had thought so binding, but could not find them. Again and again the leaves were turned, but I have never found what it was that had appeared so exacting; my thought had completely changed. I now see the Manual By-Laws as a guide to right doing and right thinking.

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