Testimony of Healing December 5, 1901 Issue

Healed by Reading Science and Health

B. Ingalls

In October, 1895, my husband was urged by our daughter, then living in Owasso, Mich., to try Christian Science for a disease that had troubled him for many years. He suffered greatly at times. The doctors had operated on him and he had used every kind of medicine that was recomended to him, but all did no permanent good. Finally he consented to go to Owosso and see a Christian Scientist, but, as he told her, without any faith whatever in the work. She remarked that he was interested enough to come and express the desire to be healed, that he had taken the right course. She gave him treatment and some reading matter, which he brought home with him. He was healed in a very short time. I at once began to read the journals and tracts. I soon began to see that a new religion was being revealed to me. I had been a member of the M. E. Church between twenty-five and thirty years, and during those years had been trying to live an hones, consistent, Christian life. Soon after conversion there was a better and brighter side to mortal life, but after long years of Christian labor, I could not realize that any real progress had been made. At times I experienced a clearer view of divine ideas, and there seemed to be a reaching out for something that would give me a better understanding of God. I read my Bible and loved it dearly, but the greater part was difficult to understand

After I began to study Christian Science there was a great change. The God of the Bible was a God of love, and not a revengeful God. As soon as I could I purchased "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." I have never for one moment doubted a statement in that book. I have been healed of many ailments,—sick headache in its worst form, neuralgia, stomach trouble, rheumatism, and corns, by reading Science and Health.

Soon others became interested. Two or three met at my home to read the lesson. We have purchased a number of copies of Science and Health, and all Mrs. Eddy's other works are being carefully and prayerfully studied.

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