Testimony of Healing March 5, 1904 Issue

I longed to be a better Christian and prayed earnestly...

Ella Pryor

I longed to be a better Christian and prayed earnestly for several years, asking God to guide my feet into paths of righteousness and peace. Christian Science came to me in what seemed to be a very dark hour. I had searched for truth in orthodox churches till I was "weary and heavy laden." I worked in one church thirteen years, and from that went to a mission that believed in faith healing, but was not satisfied, and still kept on asking for light.

At last, when our text-book was put into my hands, the great light did come,—it was just what I had been asking, looking, and waiting for. It was food for my soul, health for my body, and I lived on it for weeks. In a few weeks a disease of twenty-three years' standing and other chronic troubles entirely disappeared, and I have never had the slightest return of any of them. This great blessing came through reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. During class instruction I was troubled with three very discordant teeth. I told my teacher about them, and a few days before the close of class they were entirely healed. The dentist had said that all of them were so nearly gone they could not be saved. Two healed over so the cavities could not be found, and I am wholly unconscious of any sensation in the other.

Since coming to Christian Science a babe was born to me under perfectly harmonious conditions. The third day error wanted to creep in with a sense of suffering, and the demand that I keep still to avoid further trouble. "Miscellaneous Writings" was under my pillow. I took it up and turned to the hymn (p. 396) written by our Leader,—

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