The testimonies in our periodicals have been of much help to me over the years, and therefore I should like to share an account of one of the many healings that I have experienced through the application of Christian Science.
One morning about five years ago I was suddenly stricken with a pain so severe at the back of my neck that I was forced to go to bed. My husband called a practitioner to take up prayerful work for me, and she lovingly did so.
From this point on, I have to rely on others' information, as everything became hazy to me during this experience. I was told that for over two weeks I was in a state of coma most of the time. During those two weeks my husband was greatly sustained by the truth, which enabled him to care for me day and night. I was aware of the practitioner coming to see me and of my husband reading the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly to me. I could not remember anything from the Bible or from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, not even "the scientific statement of being" (p. 468), which I had known since I was a child. However, the thought that Life is eternal kept weaving itself in and out of my consciousness.
Finally, when my mind became somewhat more lucid, I tried to read Science and Health, although it had to be propped up on a bed tray for me to hold. I asked my husband over and over again to repeat "the scientific statement of being," because I still was not able to keep it in my thinking.
In several weeks I could sit up, and later my husband took me out for drives, although he had to carry me in and out of the house, as I could not walk. Soon I started walking by taking a few steps and then sitting down again. I continued this way for a time, during which I constantly declared that God was my strength, and finally I gained my freedom.
About six weeks later, I began to notice that my hair was coming out in large quantities. The same Christian Science practitioner was asked for help. Before long my hair stopped coming out, and new hair began coming in; in a relatively short time it was as thick as ever. Christian Science has been my sole help throughout the course of many years.
I am grateful that our two sons, both of whom were born quickly and harmoniously under Christian Science treatment, are having the benefit of being reared in Science. My gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for her wonderful revelation to this age is unbounded. For the consecrated work of our Christian Science practitioners, I am deeply thankful, for it enables us to go forward when the way appears dark indeed. I am also grateful for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church and for the blessed privilege of class instruction.— Encinitas, California.
I am happy to corroborate the statements made by my wife. It was indeed a trying time, and only Christian Science has made it possible for my wife to be with me today. For two weeks I had little time for eating or sleeping, but this situation had no untoward effect on me. For this and many other demonstrations of Truth which have been made in our family, and for the untiring and loving work that was done by the practitioner during this experience, I am more grateful than words can express.
