It is with profound gratitude that I submit this testimony to the comforting and healing efficacy of Christian Science.
In my early teens I was living with an aunt who, after two tumor operations by eminent surgeons, was given but two years to live. She was healed through Christian Science and took up its study. Through her help I was instantaneously healed of a sore throat. Later I became a member of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and began teaching in the Sunday School.
During the influenza epidemic in 1918 two of my children were ill at the same time. My little son had coughed until it seemed as though he could do so no longer, and neither of the children was able to eat normally for several days. I asked a practitioner if she would come to see us, and she lovingly consented to do so. For five hours after she left, the little boy did not once cough, and both children recovered quickly.
When about six years old my daughter had an alarming case of influenza that incapacitated her. I called the practitioner several times, and one day she told me to sing. I did so, and not long afterward the daughter went to the piano to play a little tune, entirely healed of her difficulty. Other healings in the family were those of measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, smallpox, and other maladies.
I was healed by a loving practitioner of constipation, which had troubled me most of my life. Through my own work I was healed of a sprained ankle. My younger son and I were wonderfully protected in a car accident. Because of extreme shock after this experience, for several days I desired only to sleep, but the thought came to me that I must arise and that "the stone was rolled away" (Mark 16:4). After giving considerable thought to the word stone, using the Concordances to the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's works, and after reading about the third day in the record of creation (Science and Health, pp. 508, 509), I gained my freedom from the constant desire to sleep.
I am most grateful for protection experienced by loved ones during World War II. My son-in-law, a pilot of more than eighty missions in the South Pacific, was wonderfully protected, as was a nephew on a half-track vehicle in Germany. My older son, an instructor of airplane mechanics, was taken unharmed from a burning plane. At another time, when it was impossible to lower the landing gear and everyone had bailed out except him and the pilot, the plane was landed safely on its belly. The younger son, a Navy radio operator, served on an ammunition ship in the South Pacific. At one time his ship was separated from its convoy, but the realization of man's unity with God protected him and his shipmates. I thank God for Christian Science, which showed me how to work for all the servicemen, an activity which resulted in the protection of my own.
With the help of a faithful practitioner I was quickly healed of grief at the passing of my husband, and I was enabled to realize that his progress was continuous. I felt a calmness during this period that attracted the attention of some who were not Christian Scientists, and for this proof of God's comforting care I am extremely grateful.
Christian Science has been the most important thing in my life for thirty-five years. For branch church activity in nearly every capacity, for class instruction, and for what I have been able to do to help others, I shall be unceasingly grateful. I thank God for His perfect gift, Christian Science; for its Exemplar, Christ Jesus; and for Mary Baker Eddy, its loving, intrepid Discoverer and Founder.— Jetter, Nampa, Idaho.
