Testimony of Healing December 7, 1918 Issue

About eighteen years ago, when discussing religion with...

Ellie C. Smyth

About eighteen years ago, when discussing religion with a gentleman who had lived for some time in Canada, some of the truths of Christian Science were brought to my notice without, however, being spoken of as the teachings of Christian Science. For a number of years I had been more or less under the doctor's care, suffering from weak heart and extreme nervousness. A lung, also, was said to be affected, and I was looked on as of weak constitution. For a long time I took medicines of a stimulating nature, having been ordered always to carry about with me a flask of whisky and water in case I should suddenly require it.

About a year after this gentleman talked with me I was sent to a specialist, who recommended that I should remain for some months in more bracing air than that of the south of Ireland, where my home was. During this time my sister sent me a paper containing an article on Christian Science, as she thought it so much like what our friend had stated to be his beliefs. Some months later I was walking along a street in Edinburgh when the thought came to me that it was an awful want of faith in God to be carrying this flask of whisky and water about with me, so I just threw it away and told no one. I longed to know more about Christian Science and tried to get the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, from a bookseller, but failed.

About six months later I was very ill with bronchitis, the doctor calling several times daily. On two occasions he prescribed medicine which I thought contained a drug that was said to have raised an eruption on my chin when taken previously, and on both occasions my chin became inflamed. About this time I received a paper containing an account of a Christian Science meeting in London. I wrote to the address given, receiving in reply an offer of the loan of the textbook and the information that Christian Science was being started in Dublin. I simply devoured the book and immediately began to improve, but could not realize that this was healing. As soon as able to do so I went to Dublin and asked for treatment, which was lovingly given, and from that time (now over sixteen years) my needs have been met by Christian Science. The years when I was always ailing have almost faded from memory.

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