Gratitude for help received from testimonies given in the periodicals and the desire to be obedient to the Manual of The Mother Church by our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, prompt me to testify to the healing efficacy of Christian Science.
As a child I spent much time with my grandmothers, who, through their example of Christian devoutness, gave me great faith in God. Many times difficulties were overcome through faith that all things are possible to God. It was not, however, until I began to study Christian Science and to apply the rules for demonstrating it that my faith developed into understanding, and I began to realize the relation of God to man.
The first healing experienced in our home through the help of a Christian Science practitioner put to silence forever any doubt in my thought that this Science is the Comforter which Christ Jesus said would come to us and guide us into all truth. Our five-year-old daughter was knocked unconscious while playing under a sprinkler with a group of children. I carried her into the house and then went next door to telephone a practitioner for help. Because I was new in my study of Christian Science and because my neighbors were not Christian Scientists, I was much afraid of their disapproval. However, my faith in God, together with the recollection of healings I had witnessed in a friend's home through the application of Christian Science, impelled me to be obedient.
