Testimony of Healing April 19, 1930 Issue

In appreciation of the many healings my children and I...

Laura Sinclair Tidd with contributions from Anna Laura Tidd

In appreciation of the many healings my children and I have experienced through the truth as revealed in Christian Science, and with a desire to convince some doubting one that Christian Science does heal when understandingly and faithfully applied, I give this testimony.

I think the healing that is uppermost in my thought is one of nervous breakdown, indigestion, and bowel trouble. I was reading Christian Science literature at the time I was stricken with this, but was making no special effort to live the truth, and was full of doubt and fear. I continued to read, but had not lost faith in materia medica, so would be under the care of a physician for a time, then would have a Christian Science practitioner—first one and then the other.

I realized that I could not continue this way, for I was in a terrible state of mind, full of self-condemnation. I was convinced that I could never give up Science, so I called on a practitioner, with my medicine in my handbag, and told her that I imagined I felt like a person with a bad habit who had a great desire to give it up but could not. I asked her to treat me for the desire for medicine and my faith in it, which she consented to do. At this time I was eating only toast and eggs, and had lost thirty pounds in weight in six months. I was indeed most miserable. A short time after asking for treatment I found that I had ceased taking medicine and did not feel the need of it, as I was eating anything that I wanted with no bad effects. It is over five years since that healing, and I soon regained the thirty pounds.

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