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Materialism seemed very real to me...

From the June 1959 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Materialism seemed very real to me until I found, through Christian Science, the sunlight of Truth, which dispelled the false beliefs of fear, disease, and uncertainty that had been with me since childhood. In my early years I had belonged to a Protestant church, but I had not had a clear concept of God. To me He was a far-off person, and since this concept of Him did not satisfy me, I seldom went to church. When I married and had two children, my fears for them, together with a false sense of responsibility, were overwhelming.

About 1939 I became ill. This illness left me with a pain in my head which did not yield until, in desperation and after many months of medical treatment, I finally turned to Christian Science.

I asked a relative who was a Christian Scientist if she would give me some literature and let me borrow the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. The moment I read the chapter on Prayer and learned that God is Love and that His love is available to all, I knew that I had found what I needed. I asked a Christian Science practitioner to help me, and in a short time the pain left. I was grateful for this relief, but I was not quite convinced that the work done in Science had healed me; so sometime later, when error started manifesting itself in the form of another disease, I again turned to materia medica.

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