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Out of great gratitude for all that Christian Science...

From the July 1952 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Out of great gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me I offer this testimony, hoping it may help others as I have so often been helped myself by the published testimonies. Many years ago, while residing in Chile, I became very ill with constant headaches. At times they were so severe that I was given a strong drug in order that I might have some hours free from pain. One day I saw the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, in the house of a friend I was visiting. Then I recalled many discussions I had heard about this book, some in favor of it and many against it. But I also remembered having heard that it healed people; so I asked permission to take the book home with me and read it for myself, thinking it might help me to forget my ills. I was scoffingly told that it was not worth reading, but I took it; and I may add that it was never returned.

Shortly after this visit I joined my husband in some heavy garden work at our week-end cottage. After some time I felt my arm aching; so I ceased work. I saw that a large lump had appeared on my arm. The next day I visited my doctor, who did all he could to heal it, but the condition grew gradually worse, till I could not move my fingers without pain. Then my husband suggested that I visit a surgeon. This alarmed me, for I had already had three major operations and felt I could not face even a small one. That night a voice seemed to say to me, Take the Christian Science book and read it; it has healed others and it can heal you. I started to read it, and while doing so, I fell asleep. In the morning when I awoke I was without pain.

I was so surprised and startled that I rushed to my husband to tell him I had been healed through reading the Christian Science textbook. He sternly rebuked me and told me not to talk nonsense. When I saw his displeasure over the idea of my studying the book seriously, I kept the glad news of my healing to myself and read in secret, but with growing interest. My friends knew little of Christian Science, and they ridiculed it; but I knew that I had found the pearl of great price and forthwith gave up social activities and studied the textbook with the idea of learning more of this wonderful religion.

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