Testimony of Healing May 31, 1913 Issue

I desire to testify to what Christian Science has done for...

Mary E. Norman

I desire to testify to what Christian Science has done for me and mine. I was from childhood subject to attacks of illness of a rheumatic and neuralgic nature, as the doctors pronounced it, and as I grew older and had the care of my own home I became worse, the attacks being more frequent and more severe. I tried every known remedy, and had no less than a dozen different physicians, but continued to get worse, until I was confined to my room and most of the time to my bed. My suffering was intense at times, although I had the best of care and the attending physician did all that could be done for me. I was taken ill in September, and in February the physician told me he could do nothing more.

At this time a dear friend sent me some reading matter, and among the papers were some Sentinels. I had heard of Christian Science only once before, and then in a sneering manner, but I looked at these Sentinels and read some of them, though I soon laid them down and remarked that I thought Scientists worshiped Mrs. Eddy instead of God. I had been raised very strictly, as my father was a minister in an orthodox church, and he had taught us to reverence God above all others. I could not, however, let the Sentinels alone, for something drew me to them, and I began to be interested in them; then as I read and reread them I had a strong desire for "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. I began to feel that there was the light for which I had so long yearned, as I had never been satisfied. I could not understand the Scriptures, although I had always loved the Bible and had tried to live a Christian life.

A dear friend got a copy of Science and Health, and I had read only part of the chapter on Prayer when I found that Christian Science was the long wished-for truth, and I could not read fast enough, it was so sweet to me. I felt as if I could not lay the book down. The practical result was, that I have had no need for medicine since, and I am able to help myself and others. In four weeks I was able to do my own work, and have had many demonstrations since my own healing.

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