A friend who knew that our family was in great need of the healing truth of Christian Science directed us to the home of a practitioner. I shall never forget the love and understanding with which she greeted us. Our entire family of four turned wholeheartedly to Christian Science for help.
My mother had been going to doctors over a period of several years for a chronic stomach condition and had been told that she showed every indication of cancer of the stomach. She was healed very quickly and now at eighty-two is a shining example of what the study and application of Christian Science can bring to daily living.
My own first healing was that of chronic constipation, and although the healing took place over twenty years ago, I still feel great gratitude for it. At one time I had an abscessed kidney. Under medical treatment the suffering was intense, and relief was weeks in coming. The prediction was made that there would probably be a recurrence of the difficulty. After I had studied Christian Science for about a year this trouble again presented itself with all of its alarming symptoms. With the help of the same Christian Science practitioner who had helped me before, the condition was healed in a few hours, and I was up and about my work completely free. There has never been a recurrence, although the healing took place over twenty years ago.
When I was a new student of Christian Science, my young son inadvertently laid the palm of his hand on a red-hot stove lid. When he cried out in pain, I rushed to the telephone, but was unable to reach the practitioner. I determined to apply the truth instead of ointments, and I repeated "the scientific statement of being" from page 468 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
After that I sang Mrs. Eddy's hymn which begins, "Shepherd, show me how to go" (Poems, p. 14). By the time I got to the last verse, the boy was singing too, and he said nothing further about the incident. By the next day there were no blisters, and his hand was as smooth and normal as the other. This same son at the age of eight had an instantaneous healing of bronchial asthma, which had plagued him at regular intervals from the time he was three and a half months old. The healing was complete.
When my husband was transferred by his company to a large metropolitan area, we were able through our understanding of Christian Science to secure within twenty-four hours of our arrival a home which we could afford and which was adequate to our needs, despite the fact that we had been told repeatedly by real-estate men and others that there were no homes to be had.
After the passing of my husband I derived great help from the consecrated work of a selfless practitioner. Grief and the sense of separation were overcome when I learned the true meaning of Life in Christian Science. Membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, teaching in the Sunday School, and serving on various committees have brought much progress. Serving in a Christian Science Reading Room was a particularly rewarding and enriching experience. Class teaching proved to be a great blessing, for it gave me increased understanding of how to work out problems for myself and others.
At a time when it was difficult to find employment, I was able at forty to find a position and also to enroll in classes to further my education and so increase my income. The knowledge that God is intelligence and that His child reflects that quality enabled me to obtain good grades throughout the several courses which I took.
For the past few years I have been blessed with the companionship of another student of Christian Science. We both find Truth a great help in all our affairs. The periodicals are a constant source of inspiration to our entire family, and the daily study of the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly proves invaluable.
I am indeed grateful to God, our loving Father, to Christ Jesus our Way-shower, and to Mrs. Eddy, our revered Leader, who through her pure life and consecrated efforts has given us the revelation of Science.
My life has been enriched and my outlook greatly enlarged through the study and application of this Science. My daily prayer is to so live that others may wish to know more about my religion.— Hastings, Minnesota.
