It is with joy and gratitude that...

Alice Marshall Harris

It is with joy and gratitude that I testify to the healing and restoring power of Christian Science.

Soon after I had made a change of employment which placed me in a town where no one was known to me, a younger sister passed on very suddenly. Grief at this, together with a condition of shock, was almost unbearable, and I suffered a nervous breakdown. The suggestion that I was too ill to express myself clearly and intelligibly prevented me from appealing to a Christian Science practitioner for help. I quickly grew worse, and for a long time I suffered prostration that was like a continuing dark night. This resulted in a breakdown of health and strength, and I had little hope of recovery.

It was in this extremity that I received help from a faithful worker in Christian Science and was started again on the upward way. There were difficult times at first, but the light that came from the sacred pages of our textbooks, the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, guided and sustained me. Every piece of Christian Science literature that came brought its message of comfort and strength, and today I rejoice in health and wholeness.

Some time ago, while running from the garden to answer the telephone, I bumped my head sharply on the low-hanging branch of a tree. From the immediate pain I knew that a vertebra of the neck, which had been out of place previously, had slipped again. I sought to work out the problem with Christian Science, but although I thought I was faithfully applying what I understood, for some time there was no change in the condition. One morning when I was feeling ill and in pain, the suggestion came that I would have to go to someone to have the vertebra put into place. This suggestion awakened me to realize that I had been fearing that God could not help me.

With a prayer for a stronger faith, I opened the textbooks to study the weekly Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. One of the citations from the Bible was this (Ps. 31:1): "In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed." At first I read it without realizing its application to my need. Then I read it again. I asked myself: "Are these words true for me? Is my trust in God or in the manipulations of mortal man?" As I prayed for a firmer faith in God, so that I need never be ashamed again for the smallness or weakness of my trust, I felt the vertebra slide into place, and the healing was complete. This was a lesson to me that when we bring our inmost thoughts under God's scrutiny, we find our Father is ready and waiting to help us.

This testimony is sent in the hope that it may help others. I am deeply grateful for Mrs. Eddy's lifework and for her revelation of the ever-present Christ.—(Mrs.) Alice Marshall Harris, Napa, California.

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