The Blessings of Christian Science

The Saturday Review

THE following story was told in a Christian Science meeting in a northern city. The woman was a stranger in the congregation, and she appeared to be from the best middle class. She said,—

"Two months ago I was desperately in need of everything—reverses had followed each other thick and fast. My best dress was faded and worn, the children were bare-footed, and we could not hope to get shoes for them. My husband was a drinking man, and nobody would trust him with work. I stayed at home until it looked as if starvation was threatening my little ones; despair had its icy fingers on me when I put on my hat and started out in the street, with a determination to ask for help. I went aimlessly about the streets until I saw this church; then it occurred to me to go in, and I thought some good Christian would help me. A sweet woman spoke to me; I told her my story of distress, and she did not offer me money or material aid in any way; she talked to me and gave me some literature, and told me if I would read and understand it would lift me above all distress and worry. She said, 'God is Love; you are His child, and you cannot want when you understand that you are a child of a King.' I went out empty handed from the church, but all the depression and anxious fear that was heaped upon my soul was gone. I read and re-read the literature she gave me, and then a Christian Scientist visited my home and told me of God as a very present help in the time of trouble, and I believed every word of it, and this lifted me above the confusion that was around me. All fear was gone, and little by little things began to harmonize. Now, two months after the first literature in Christian Science was given me, I have the brightest and sweetest home. My husband has quit drinking, he is sober and industrious, and he has all the work that he can do, and we both rejoice in our home which is made bright and attractive by God—Good.

"Not one cent was ever given us, but it was simply God's word believed and made manifest which has supplied us.

"Look at me now. I have everything in the world that I want, every human need has been supplied, and all the longings of the heart have been realized. At first I thought it was material things that I wanted, and which I had need of; but now I see that it was not the material things that I wanted, but it was an emptiness of soul or mind that was crying for food. This longing for something higher and better, which could not be filled by the material things of this life,—it was the longing to know more of God, and to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, and when my thought was filled with God I then found that all material things were supplied, and that I did not need anything. I thank God for Christian Science, which has brought such peace and harmony into my home. I thank God for the understanding I have of the spiritual life.

"I have not only found a God of peace and plenty, but I have also found the God that 'heals thy wounds.'

"A few weeks ago when I was preparing a meal on a very hot stove, this little fellow [she turned to the boy by her side] was playing near the stove, and the contents of a kettle of boiling water was turned over and a great amount of it splashed into his face. For a while his screams were terrible, the neighbors rushed in and wanted to send for a doctor, and said there was danger of losing his sight. I knew the doctor could not heal that burn, and I saw clearly if it was healed that it must be done by God.

"I took him in my arms and prayed out loud, fighting error for some time before the screaming was silenced; and in a few hours he was sleeping soundly. For a few days his face was red, but it never blistered. I used no medicine or applications of any sort; the only remedy applied was Christian Science as taught by Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.'

"I want you all to see my boy [she turned him around see all the congregation could see him]. His face is white and fresh as a baby's, and there is no appearance of the recent burn. I thank God for this understanding of Christian Science, which heals all diseases and enabled me to overcome fear, and planted my feet on the rock."

The Saturday Review, Atlanta, Ga.

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