My first healing was that of eyesight. Eye specialists had told me I would have to wear glasses as long as I lived. I had picked up the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and started to read it, more to know what it was like than for any other reason. After reading for less than ten minutes I took off my glasses, and have not needed them since, although this happened over ten years ago. I have been healed, also, of chronic bilious attacks, appendicitis, and many other ills; for which I am grateful.
I should like to tell about a healing of pneumonia. I was living in Wyoming, in a place where at that time it was supposed to be fatal to anyone to manifest pneumonia because the altitude was so high. The error seemed so great that I was gasping for breath between coughs and had lost my voice, when a sister came to me and at my whispered request called a Christian Science practitioner. Absent treatment was given first, and then present treatment. After about an hour I requested the practitioner to sing for me out of the Christian Science Hymnal. This she lovingly did, and after a few attempts on my part I was singing with her. This was on a Wednesday night. My one thought and prayer was to be receptive to the truth. On the following Friday a friend came to see me and earnestly asked me to "get some real help," before it was too late. I thanked her, knowing that she meant well, but I told her that I knew that "what God cannot do, man need not attempt" (Science and Health, p. 231). On the following Monday I was back at work, healed, and grateful that once more the truth of Mrs. Eddy's words, "Truth is always the victor" (ibid.,p. 380),had been proved.
I am grateful for the changes for the better that have come into my life through this blessed truth. I am learning how to live, whereas in comparison I formerly only existed. My prayer is that my life may attest my deep gratitude for Christian Science, and that I may be worthy of being called a Christian Scientist.—Council Bluffs, Iowa.
