Testimony of Healing June 11, 1955 Issue

I am grateful for the many blessings...

Anna K. Clark Smith

I am grateful for the many blessings that have come to me through the study of Christian Science. If this religion had never done anything for me other than to give me a better concept of God, it would be enough reason for never ceasing to be grateful. For many years the mention of the word God roused in my consciousness not only fear but an indescribable sense of resentment. Through a friend I was led to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. When I learned what Christian Science says about God, my whole outlook changed completely. Fear of God and resentment toward Him vanished at once.

I read on page 140 of Science and Health, "The Christian Science God is universal, eternal, divine Love, which changeth not and causeth no evil, disease, nor death." I knew then that I had found a concept of God which I could accept. I have since learned that it is this divine Love, manifested through steadfast, spiritual, right thinking which enables us to overcome limitations and to demonstrate health, freedom, and harmony.

Before I became a student of Christian Science, I had suffered for more than a year because of a kidney ailment. In all this time medical science could do nothing for me. I even wrote to a specialist whom I knew. In his reply he gave me the same prescription for medicine and the same instructions other doctors had given me. He also told me that any delay in treating the condition would be very dangerous. This was discouraging to me, and I became very despondent—it all seemed so hopeless.

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