Testimony of Healing February 17, 1951 Issue

"Ye shall know the truth, and the...

Marjorie E. Smith

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." These words from John (8:32) had always challenged me, but with Pilate I asked. "What is truth?" In search of the answer, I studied philosophy at a university and investigated many religious denominations. It was not until five years ago, however, that I was led to study Christian Science and found the answer to my question.

At that time I was in great physical and mental distress. My mother had just passed on. A year before, I had resigned my teaching position to care for her, and the demands on me during that year had aggravated a condition from which I had suffered for years and which doctors had diagnosed as curvature of the spine, fallen stomach, gastritis, and chronic sinus trouble. I was in mental torture, as I could not accept my mother's faith that it was God's will that she be sick. During that period I read the entire New Testament, and there were many statements in it that I could not understand.

When I had suffered for weeks and thought I could never work steadily again, I felt led to go to my former high school to ask about substitute teaching. My savings were exhausted, and I felt that I could not submit to a life of dependency and invalidism without losing my sanity.

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