For ten years it has been my privilege to be a student of Christian Science, and from the first, healings of many difficulties were manifested in our family. Among them were nearly all the so-called children's diseases, the disappearance of adenoids, which had caused very labored breathing, blood poisoning, hives, ivy poisoning, wasp stings, and a knee, badly cut by a fall on a perforated iron mat. Some of these healings have come through our application of the truth, others through the help of practitioners, but they were all accomplished with the minimum of discomfort to all concerned.
I have been healed of grippe, pneumonia, severe colds, and sore throat, and an acute attack of indigestion. In this case it was necessary to ask for help during the night; the pain immediately began to subside, and my daughter and I were able to accept an invitation to lunch at the home of a friend the following day.
A beautiful healing of congestion of the lungs took place about four years ago. After working for two days, I called a practitioner. She felt it wise to come to my home, a distance of twelve miles. She stayed with me an hour, and as she was leaving the room I was healed. I arose, dressed, and went about my neglected household duties. Glasses were laid off after I had studied Science but a few months. This healing was brought about in about two months, through prayer and clinging to the thought of Mrs. Eddy's definition of "eyes" in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 586), which reads in part, "spiritual discernment"; and it greatly encouraged me at that time to go on, for it proved that a beginner in this study can realize the divine power that heals.
