Before coming into Christian Science,...

Ethel E. Robertson

Before coming into Christian Science, I had a major operation for an abdominal tumor at a well-known medical clinic. The doctors said that the conditon was malignant and would be very apt to recur, and they warned me of the symptoms.

As a member of an orthodox church I loved and studied the Bible, and I prayed to the God I had been taught to worship. However, I was not satisfied with my religion and was constantly reading about other forms of worship.

Shortly after my experience in the hospital I went on a trip with my husband. On the train coming home I picked up a copy of The Christian Science Journal. I became so interested that I read it through and then reread some of the articles several times. I recognized that this teaching was what I had been searching for all my life. Upon reaching home I secured from a public library the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which had been mentioned so many times in the Journal.

As I read the first line in the Preface (p. vii), "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings," I had such an uplift that I felt as though I were treading on air.

The rapture of that moment was truly a conversion based upon a solid conviction of Truth. I saw that to understand God, or good, one must live in accord with good, Mrs. Eddy writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 248), "You know that to conceive God aright you must be good."

Shortly after this, one of the symptoms which the doctors had predicted might recur appeared. As I had been told to report to the hospital immediately when this occurred, I knew that I must now decide what to do.

I searched my heart as to whether I wanted to go back to medical treatment or lean entirely on the wonderful truth I had just found. Humbly I prayed in the only way I knew. After that I was sure I could never go back to medicine. The symptom disappeared very shortly and has never returned. That was over twenty-five years ago, and I have never taken a drop of medicine since then.

I bought Science and Health and the other writings by our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and started taking the Christian Science periodicals. In addition, I studied the weekly Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly every day. Later I joined The Mother Church and a branch church.

I have had many healings in Christian Science, some through the help of practitioners, and others through my own understanding. Tonsillitis and severe colds have vanished, the tea and coffee habits have disappeared, and various faults of disposition have been overcome. Through deep and humble study there has been a constant unfoldment, for which my gratitude is unbounded.

I love our revered Leader and am grateful that through her spiritual thinking she was able to discover the truth. For the work The Mother Church is doing for the world, and for class instruction, which has opened the way to more understanding of Truth, I am also very grateful. I rejoice in the words of a hymn (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 64), "My heart is singing: I have found the way." —(Mrs.) Ethel E. Robertson, St. Petersburg, Florida.

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