Testimony of Healing May 18, 1963 Issue

Through a great sorrow which...

Winifred Hannah Seymour

Through a great sorrow which came into my life thirty-seven years ago, I was in the very depths of despair. I was in such a state of mind that I was "tired of living" but "scared of dying." I had no means, and I was without hope "and without God in the world" (Eph. 2:12).

I had had an unhappy childhood and was brought up to believe in the reality of evil, so much so that whenever anything nice happened it was considered too good to be true. In times of stress members of my family turned to drink for solace, and I myself was beginning to succumb to the temptation, for I thought I had nothing to live for.

Then one day a friend began to tell me about Christian Science and what it teaches of God and man. I could not understand how this friend, who was an officer in the British Army and must have seen many slain in battle, could believe there is a God. I borrowed from him the book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I started to read it when I went to bed that night and became so absorbed in it that I read all through the night. This marvelous revelation of Truth, which Mrs. Eddy was pure enough to receive, did wonderful things for me: it transformed my character, and from that first reading until now I have not had the slightest desire to drink or smoke.

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