Testimony of Healing May 11, 1992 Issue

I write, for my joy cannot be contained

Bernice A. Abbott

I Write , for my joy cannot be contained. Christian Science has rescued me from prison—from a prison of limitation and fear.

When I found Christian Science, I was literally working in a prison—in the front office of one, for the Department of Correction. One day I stopped by the information officer's desk and on the counter was a package of interesting-looking literature. The officer gave me permission to borrow it, and then I was to return it to him for dispatch to the prison library. The packet included copies of the Sentinel, The Christian Science Journal, and The Christian Science Monitor. This literature became for me the sunlight that "glances into the prison-cell" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy). It proclaimed the truth that Christ Jesus said would make us free.

That momentous day was the beginning of my awakening from a dark, foreboding sensual view of life with all its snarls and entanglements. I felt I was no longer lost or blind. I caught a glimpse of this incomparably logical and divinely reasonable truth. Thereafter I "borrowed" every packet of Christian Science literature that came into our facility.

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