Testimony of Healing February 23, 1957 Issue

My search for Truth was a long...

Olive Carleton-Munro

My search for Truth was a long one, but when it ended by my finding Christian Science, I considered it well worth while. As a child I loved the Bible and read it constantly. However, when my mother passed on and I overheard a neighbor say, "It must have been God's will to take her," I rebelled. The God I had been so earnestly seeking I now felt to be a cruel tyrant who could callously take a mother away from a young family who needed her. I had my own little Bible, but I now put it away, determined to seek its teachings no more. I was only thirteen, and I felt that I had lost not only my mother but also my God.

For several lonely years I went along feeling a great void. While I had given up seeking God through orthodox theology, I nevertheless read omnivorously, delving into all the Eastern systems of religion and philosophy. But even in my immaturity I knew that Truth was not there.

Finally, one day a friend handed me a Sentinel. I was quite discouraged at the time, as all my reading had brought no real answer to my questions about life. I read the Sentinel through, and when I had finished it, I thought, "This is what I have been seeking." I then began the study of Christian Science, and never again was I in doubt about the truth. That was many years ago, and the years that have followed have been precious years of growth and unfoldment.

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