Forty-two years ago my father was healed of consumption of the bowels through reading our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. Since then many healings have taken place in our family, which at the time of my father's healing consisted of seven small children.
At one time I was healed of boils and a very painful skin condition. The boils had appeared on many parts of my body, face, and neck. Following the healing of the boils, which took several months, I suffered from a skin irritation on my face and neck. Many sleepless nights were experienced. I tried faithfully to work out this problem for myself; then I had help from practitioners at different times over a period of a year.
One morning a practitioner was called, and work was taken up. In a short time there was complete freedom. My gratitude was great, but by evening the whole condition had returned. The realization came to me that my gratitude had been false, for it had been expressed only for the fact that the physical condition, which had greatly hurt my human sense of pride, had been healed. I knew then that my gratitude needed to be for a better understanding of God and man. The decision was made to work out the problem alone with God and not to call the practitioner. Accordingly my thinking was given a thorough searching. One sleepless night while I was studying the Bible and Science and Health, the thought came to me, "Why, Jesus said (John 8:31, 32), 'If ye continue in my word, . . . ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.'" Here was my answer: All that needed to be known was the truth. In a few days all trace of the condition disappeared, and there has been no return of it. This healing took place over nine years ago.
