While reading the testimonies in a Christian Science Sentinel I had a deep desire to tell how grateful I am, and how much Christian Science has done for me. As I thought about what healing I would relate, the realization came to me that I had never been seriously ill in my life; and I thanked God for the great protection that Christian Science had been to me. I am now over twenty-five years old and have never taken any medicine.
I am grateful to Mrs. Eddy for making God's presence a reality to me. In 1925 I was teaching school. All at once everything outside grew black as night and a great roaring could be heard. I had no idea what was happening, but arose from my seat and all the children ran toward me. The only thing I could think of was "God is here." I kept repeating this to myself and aloud, while the children were crying and even some of the little ones were praying. When it began to grow light again and I looked out of the window, I could not believe the sight that met my eyes. All the houses were either down or burning, and one side of our room was out; but none of my children were seriously hurt, nor was I.
I had a lesson recently that made me realize what a truly wonderful blessing we have in our Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly. One Wednesday evening I felt rather ill and had all the symptoms of influenza. I went to church, hoping to obtain a healing there. When I did not, I thought I would be all right in the morning; but I was not, for I felt worse instead of better. That morning my mother said that I had better read the Lesson. I thought I felt too sick to do so, and put it off until after dinner that evening. Then the thought came to me, If you read the Lesson, you will feel better; so I studied the Lesson and tried to realize the truths in it. After finishing I was perfectly well, with no after effects of any kind. Then the question came to me. Why did it take the reading of the Lesson to heal you? I had been doing my mental work all the time. I then realized that the Lesson was on absolute Science, and that if we allowed no other thoughts to creep in while we were studying it, we had at least one half hour of absolutely scientific thinking, and that this was enough to heal me. For this and many other healings I am surely grateful.
