The fruits of our labor, as expressed through the testimonies given in the Christian Science periodicals, have often inspired me to renewed and more persistent effort, and it is in deep appreciation of this valuable help received that I give this testimony.
Several years' study of Christian Science has resulted in the overcoming of sick headaches, sore throats, and many minor illnesses, but one healing seems to stand out as the time when mere faith yielded to spiritual understanding. For many months I had been suffering from what is known as nervous prostration, with its attendant doubts and fears, until life seemed unbearable. From a strong, healthy woman, under the mesmerism of fear I grew thin, emaciated, and unhappy, always dreading some indefinable shadow that seemed to haunt me. During these months the realization that my freedom lay in overcoming not in submitting to evil, kept me from attempting to take my life.
Finally, through the help of one whose clear understanding of Mrs. Eddy's teachings has many times since lifted me to declare God's omnipotence, I rebelled at the suggestions of fear, and repeated slowly several times these words from page 14 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, "Entirely separate from the belief and dream of material living, is the Life divine." As the truth contained in these words dawned upon me, I recognized that inharmony, suggestion, lack, sickness do not constitute Life; then evil could neither make me happy nor unhappy, and this recognition was my healing.
