In the hope that someone needing...

Priscilla Morison Stenberg

In the hope that someone needing encouragement may be helped onward toward his rightful freedom, the following testimony is given.

First of all, it may be honestly stated that Christian Science has awakened me from a dull and disinterested existence to a full and happy life, rich in satisfaction. What has been accomplished in my case can most certainly be attained by anyone, as many individuals are today proving, for, in the words of Peter (Acts 10:34), "God is no respecter of persons."

Throughout many of my early years I was in good physical condition, but at times I was a victim of moodiness and spells of depression, and this without any apparent cause. After some years of these spells there followed a nervous breakdown, and I was indeed in distress.

Throughout the darkest days that followed, however, I was aware of one fact. This fact was that Christian Science had never failed me when I had honestly applied it with an effort to be obedient to its teaching. It became clear that I had never really tried to conquer moodiness and that this condition had been ignored altogether too long.

Mrs. Eddy says (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 211), "All that error asks is to be let alone." Apparently I had been doing just that—letting error alone. At this time it seemed best to call upon a practitioner for guidance and help. This step taken, I began to study more earnestly than ever before. In the following months, attendance at church services and the work of a loyal practitioner supplied a staff to lean upon. For a long period I held to the rules of this healing Science and allowed them to permeate the activities of each day as never before. I learned at last the difference between mere reading and actual studying.

It was pointed out that we cannot travel within and at the same time stand still without; also, that the tomorrows which we dread are largely dependent on our thinking today, and that no one need be the victim of circumstances.

So it was that I progressed step by step, till finally my complete freedom was gained. Looking back on this healing, which was not a quick one, I am grateful for the fact that I had to live so close to the truth that my life was changed in many ways. Not only was the nervous breakdown completely healed, but one day I realized that the old spells of moodiness which had for years hung over me like a dark cloud, had also vanished. Whereas I once was way up and then way down in my outlook on life, I have ever since been traveling a sure, smooth, and even road.

Christian Science has truly acted as a perfect leveling process in my life, and promises to do so in the experience of everyone who strives to apply this Science honestly.—(Mrs.) Priscilla Morison Stenberg, Brookline, Massachusetts.

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