Before I took up the study of Christian Science my outlook...

Beulah Frances Pack

Before I took up the study of Christian Science my outlook on life was an exceedingly depressed, confused, and fearful one. From childhood I had belonged to an orthodox church, but my questions as to the nature of God and the fundamental reason for existence were never satisfactorily answered there, or by any of the books on philosophy and psychology which I had diligently read. I brooded over all the seeming hate, injustice, and futility of material gain, and life did not appear to me to be worth living.

A few years after I graduated from school, an unstable sense of health developed into a complete breakdown. Material remedies and treatments of great variety were faithfully applied by the finest physicians and specialists in the endeavor to build me up, but without any beneficial results. After six months there was no improvement, and I became so discouraged that thoughts of suicide haunted me night and day. At that time I lost all faith in medicine, osteopathy, and all material treatments and tried to resign myself to what to me seemed the inevitable—insanity and slow death.

After two more months of mental suffering and physical weakness, I met a friend who recommended that I try Christian Science. Up to that time I had heard Christian Science spoken of only in ridicule and knew nothing whatever of its teachings. Without the slightest conscious expectation of deriving any benefit therefrom, I sent for a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. To my amazement after reading only a few pages I suddenly felt as if a tremendous pressure had been lifted from me. It was like waking from a terrible nightmare, and only those who have passed through a similar experience can fully understand the joy of release.

I continued to read and also commenced the study of the Bible Lessons as given in the Christian Science Quarterly. With the help of a practitioner I regained my health in a very short time, and I have relied solely on Christian Science since that day for the solving of all problems.

After that first mountain-top experience, I seemed to descend into a valley again before the false concepts, due to years of erroneous thinking, were wiped out. There were times when I doubted and became discouraged, but even in the darkest moments divine Love never failed to bring me some message of comfort and assurance.

Christian Science has healed me of the need for wearing glasses, of influenza, bronchial pneumonia, and other physical ailments, for which I am exceedingly grateful; but the greatest of all blessings is the ever increasing awakening to the spiritual facts of being and the ability to be of some small help to others. I know that the healings and the life more abundant which I am experiencing have come and will continue to come to me solely from God through the teachings of the Bible as interpreted and demonstrated by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.

My testimony would be incomplete without an expression of gratitude for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, for class instruction, and for the patient and loving help of practitioners.

(Miss) Beulah Frances Pack, Union, Maine.

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