The testimonies of healing in our Journal and Sentinel are a joy to all Christian Scientists because they not only corroborate the truth which has healed us, but give us hope in meeting the problems yet unsolved.
I, too, wish to express gratitude to God for all His goodness to me and mine, and to our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for the purity of thought which brought to her the revelation of this new-old religion of Christ-healing.
Having come from a family of ministers, five of whom were in the generation before me, I had a deeply religious bringing up, for which I shall always be grateful. Prayer was an important factor in my life, and Bible study a beloved part of my reading. However, it was not until I took up the study of Christian Science in 1925 that I really began to understand the spiritual meaning of the Scriptures.
I was healed at that time of an internal condition from which I had suffered for about twelve years. I had taken much medicine, had had treatments, and finally an operation, none of which had given me any help. Advised by a relative to try Christian Science, I telephoned to a practitioner who lived near by. I asked if anyone could be healed who had no faith in Christian Science. Her answer was, "Many who come to scoff, remain to pray." I made an appointment with her and told her my trouble. She gave me some surprising but satisfying interpretations of the Bible and told me to call her if needed.
Some days later, suffering severely, and extremely weak from pain, I asked a member of my family to call the practitioner and tell her I needed help. This was most reluctantly done, but in the fifteen-minute interval before this relative returned to me I experienced an instantaneous healing of pain, of weakness, and of the organic disorder. The healing was as though a wind passed over me, taking with it all pain and weakness. I was suddenly strong and free, and greatly awed, as I did not understand how it had come about.
In the years of study since that healing I have learned that it is the truth that makes us free—the truth about man which Jesus taught in Galilee, the truth that Mrs. Eddy discovered, the law of God, which is ever present to heal sickness and sorrow.
My mother, who was one of the first women in this country to be ordained as a minister in her denomination, told me she could never leave her own faith. However, she acknowledged a remarkable healing that took place through Christian Science, and she asked me publicly to express her gratitude.
I deem it one of my greatest blessings that I was privileged to have class instruction from one of Mrs. Eddy's close followers, whose teaching and example will always be an inspiration to me.
For all that Christian Science means to me, for the protection it has given its followers in the armed services, and for the benefit which it will unquestionably be in the postwar world, I am humbly grateful. — Lawrence, New York.
