Testimony of Healing November 15, 1900 Issue

Healed by Reading Science and Health

Esther A.L. Rudd

It has been in my thought for some time to testify to the benefits I have received through the Truth as revealed in Christian Science. I was brought up in the Congregationalist Church, and for about thirty years was a member of the church. I read and studied my Bible a great deal, praying each day for wisdom and understanding to know God's will concerning us. I was not satisfied with the way in which Christ's promises were explained, for it seemed that in my own case and with many around me, the need was now as great as, or greater than, when Jesus healed the sick and raised the dead as recorded in the Bible.

But while I took medicine and prayed, I grew worse, and for about fourteen years was a partial invalid, suffering much of the time with acute pain. I had the advice and medicine of many doctors without any permanent benefit. They could give me no hope of a cure, but thought I might live to be old, although not one had ever had a patient with like symptoms. I tried change of climate, but it did no good. I would not have an operation, which the doctors thought would enable them to ascertain the cause of so much distress, for I had a fear that it would result fatally. Almost everything I ate caused distress. I had eaten no acid for a long time, and was constantly limiting my diet, in such bondage was I to the flesh, not realizing that I was free born and God's child. My hopelessness was so great that for a number of years I read the third chapter of Job on my birthday.

Two years ago last spring I heard some talk about Christian Science by those who had known Scientists, and a friend to whom Science and Health had been given a number of years before, offered to lend it to me, but I refused to read it, thinking it pernicious and not in accordance with the Bible. I had read some articles in church papers which criticised it.

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