Having been helped from time to time through the reading of the testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals, I should like to take this opportunity of sharing some of the healings which have taken place in my experience since I took up the study of Christian Science.
Many years ago, after hearing a lecture on Christian Science, I went the following day to a Christian Science Reading Room to borrow the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Through the first reading of it I was healed of rheumatism and constipation. At that time I did not know that people could be healed just by the reading of the textbook. Like many others, I was not seeking physical healing, although I was in need of it, but I was in search of a better understanding of God and the Bible. Previous to the time I first read the textbook I was constantly taking medicine, and the doctor had informed me that he could not cure me. However, I became so interested in the textbook that I forgot entirely about my medicine, and in the words of the Apostle Paul became "absent from the body, and . . . present with the Lord." It was some time afterwards when I realized that the healing had taken place. Naturally I was very grateful for this, but I was even more grateful for having discovered how the healing came about. It is now over twelve years, and I have never taken any medicine since.
Following this experience I found myself longing for an opportunity to put into practice the little understanding I had gained of the teachings of Christian Science. It came. Shortly afterwards my mother became very ill with an attack of hemorrhage of the lungs. She refused to have a doctor because of having been kept in bed for six weeks when suffering from the same trouble on a previous occasion. I asked her to read Science and Health, and she did so, while I applied my little understanding of Christian Science. For some time she seemed to grow worse, and I became fearful because the doctor had informed me previously that if my mother had another attack she would not recover. The following words from Science and Health (p. 97) came to me: "It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion." Towards midnight she improved and fell asleep. The following day she went to town shopping, also attended a theater, and when she reached home that evening declared that she had not felt so well for a long time.
