I feel it a great privilege to be able to tell of my healing through Christian Science. I can never show my gratitude sufficiently for the way I have been lifted out of what the psalmist calls a "horrible pit." I turned every way for relief before I heard of Christian Science, but no permanent benefit was ever received and very little temporary relief. I was being driven slowly but surely to the one source of healing, the divine Mind, and when I look back on that time of struggle it seems a very small part of my life. I was always wondering "Why?" about many things, and now Christian Science is answering all questions that need to be answered, and will, I know, eventually solve every problem. This feeling of sureness, protection, and peace, in the place of worry, doubt, and unrest, is the greatest blessing that has ever come into my life.
Physically I have been healed of sleeplessness, from which I had suffered many years, often lying awake the whole night. Now my sleep is sweet and refreshing, and has been from my first reading of Science and Health five years ago. A chronic throat affection, also a stomach ailment, and many other ills, including one severe internal trouble, the result of an accident over twenty years ago, which seemed very tenacious, have all been overcome. The healing was very slow and I suffered much, but all the time I knew that I should be healed, and never loosened my hold on the truth or felt any desire to turn back. I knew there was nothing to go back to, so my only way was to go forward.
I write this with the hope that it will perhaps help others to hold fast in the face of what may almost seem defeat, as I used to feel greatly helped and encouraged by reading any testimony of what seemed slow healing. I would like also to express my gratitude for the kindness shown to me by the many doctors I was under before coming to Christian Science. Without exception they unselfishly gave the best they had, which cheered and helped me often, if it did not heal. At first I did not think much of Mrs. Eddy in connection with Christian Science, but now I am beginning to understand in some degree what it meant to give to the world this revelation of divine Truth; and as understanding grows, the gratitude grows also. This gratitude cannot be expressed fully by speaking of it, but we can live it daily to the best of our ability, knowing that "our sufficiency is of God."
