The many blessings which my family and I have received through the study of Christian Science prompt me to submit this testimony. I am grateful that in this study I have found the comforting promise of the Master, Christ Jesus, to be true (John 8: 32): "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
I wish to express my deepest gratitude to Mary Baker Eddy for bringing to light this healing truth and proving that it is as applicable and as effective now as it was in the time of Jesus. She states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 402), "Christian Science is always the most skilful surgeon, but surgery is the branch of its healing which will be last acknowledged."
Before taking up the study of Christian Science I was examined by a physician, due to a physical disorder, and the difficulty was pronounced a hernia. Not very long after this diagnosis my husband and I took up the study of Christian Science. One of the first things we learned was that God is our physician. Although the hernia was not healed, it bothered me only at times. Finally, however, it became very much enlarged and inflamed to the extent that it was impossible for me to get out of bed or turn over on my side. This condition continued for one week, during which time I had the help of a Christian Science practitioner. For the love and patient work which was done I shall always be most humbly grateful. There was much fear on my part to be overcome. Chills and fever had to be healed. On the sixth day I was at times in a semiconscious condition, and the thought of death seemed very near. I voiced this to the practitioner that evening, and this profound statement was the reply: "God is your Life." This turned my thought from the fear of death to the fact that I must realize, and be honest in my realization, that God is my Life. I held to this truth in the face of every contradictory evidence of the material senses.
