Testimony of Healing January 24, 1920 Issue

In hurriedly running down the stairs one day I missed a...

Jeannette Manning Moore

In hurriedly running down the stairs one day I missed a step, and was thrown violently to the bottom. At first I could neither move nor speak, so my son-in-law helped me to a seat and then turned to the telephone to ask for help from a Christian Science practitioner. As he did so, I left the hall and was soon on my way to church. There was no sense of pain until I tried to reach back for some books and then it was great; also breathing was painful. I tried to hold fast to the truth of being, but the suffering continued, until on the tenth day I was led to study once more the Lesson-Sermon "Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?" I was able to get the connection between the Bible and Science and Health references in each section intelligibly and when I thought of myself again the pain was gone. I am learning that hurrying through the lesson to get to other work and studying it are entirely different in effect.

Twenty-seven years ago I was healed through Christian Science of ills too numerous to mention, and I have been an earnest student of this teaching ever since. I was ten years in overcoming a bowel difficulty; not until the habit of worrying was overcome did this trouble leave me. I have passed through deep waters, but God's strong arm upheld me. I can truthfully and joyfully say that I owe all my happiness during these years to this compassionate religion—Christian Science—discovered and founded by that divinely inspired woman, Mrs. Eddy. I am deeply grateful to those at headquarters for the ably edited Journal and Sentinel, and thankful to the committee for the wonderful Lesson-Sermons, that when well digested meet our every need. Last but not least is my gratitude for The Christian Science Monitor, which handles with ungloved hands all that is not founded on Principle. In a measure we can express our gratitude for these invaluable periodicals by obeying our dear Leader's expressed wish regarding the Journal (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 271), that Christian Scientists "should take our magazine, work for it, write for it, and read it."

(Mrs.) Jeannette Manning Moore, Ardmor, Okla.

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