Testimonies of Healing
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 583 ) our inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, defines Christ as "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error.
Shortly after the end of the recent war I suffered a complicated fracture of my left femur when a truck in which I was riding turned over and landed on me. At an evacuation hospital, a day or two later, physicians tried to set the leg.
I am grateful for Christian Science, which Mrs. Eddy defines in "Rudimental Divine Science" ( p.
" Remember that mankind must sooner or later, either by suffering or by Science, be convinced of the error that is to be overcome. " So states Mary Baker Eddy on page 240 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Some time ago at a church service in English we sang Hymn No. 412 in the Christian Science Hymnal, an old Irish melody.
Though many times I have expressed gratitude verbally for having found Christian Science over twenty years ago, I have been lax in writing my testimony, and I hope I may make some amends by this testimony. Christian Science is indeed the pearl of great price in our family, for through its teachings physical, mental, and financial problems have been solved as we have relied faithfully, consistently, and radically on Truth.
For more than twenty years Christian Science has been a sustaining, healing, and practical religion to me and my family. It has been my joyful privilege to witness many proofs of God's ever-presence, but one experience taught me the true meaning of prayer.
I first heard of Christian Science in 1900, when my husband's sister wrote me that this Science had healed her after the doctors said she could not get well. I was not interested enough then to look into it, and she did not mention Christian Science to me again until I asked for it, twenty years later.
During the first World War I became interested in Christian Science through a tenant, who told me of an experience with her baby. When the baby accidentally drank carbolic acid, the mother called a practitioner.
It is with a heart full of gratitude that I share the experiences my husband and I have had in demonstrating God's protecting care and guidance when working out a more complete understanding of home as spiritual consciousness. Mrs.