Testimony of Healing July 17, 1971 Issue

Leaving England to emigrate to Canada was the conclusion of...

Anthony M. White

Leaving England to emigrate to Canada was the conclusion of an almost yearlong compulsion to do so. But I had no idea why. Prior to this, I had seldom been far from home. In October, 1964, I found myself in Toronto, nearly three thousand miles from home, looking for work and having been assured that there would be no difficulty in finding it. But as the hours passed into days, it became obvious that finding employment wasn't going to be so easy; in fact, after some five weeks it appeared impossible.

Despair and self-pity were beginning to creep in as I unwillingly dragged myself around the city in the bitter cold weather. Drinking and smoking were long-standing habits that were helping to dissipate what little money I had. With nothing coming in, winter rapidly descending, Christmas fast approaching, expenses mounting, my whole situation seemed impossible. The days were black, the nights sleepless, and now desperation was gripping me.

One Monday evening, after another fruitless search, I prepared to go out and drown my dilemma. But instead of doing so, I just happened to look quickly at the few books I had brought over with me and take from among them a copy of the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

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