Testimony of Healing December 11, 1920 Issue

I wish to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science...

Pearl Threlkeld

I wish to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me and for our family. Six years ago I read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, for the first time, and though I then felt I could not understand the book, I can now recall many instances of protection, and several healings that came during the three months that the book was in our home. After the book was returned to the one who lent it to us I often had a desire to read it again and wondered why, when I did not understand it, I should feel so. Nearly a year later, when my husband asked what I would like as a gift, it came to me forcefully that to own a copy of Science and Health would be all I could desire, and I told him so. Several days later he handed me a copy and I began to read it again. This time I found here and there lines that I could understand, where before all I seemed to understand was that God is Love. Love was what I had always wanted to know as God when I was a child, but I had been taught far differently.

At this time I had much need of ridding my thought of the testimony of the material senses, and a few afternoons later I went to the local reading room and talked with the librarian and was shown how to study our textbook together with the Bible. Having purchased a Quarterly I returned home with uplifted thought; a burden had been lifted, and I began at once to study and to rely absolutely on the teachings of Science and Health as its meaning unfolded to me. The next Sunday our two children began attending the Christian Science Sunday school and have gone continually ever since.

We have had many healings in our home, but I shall always remember and rejoice for the first proof of the simplicity of the truth as taught in Christian Science. Our little girl, then nearly three years of age, was playing by a door, and on losing her balance she grabbed for the wall. One hand caught the door knob, while the other hand pressed against the back of the door, the little finger entering the opening at the hinges. The weight closed the door, with her finger caught. Her father, who was standing near, went to the door and unlatched it, releasing her finger. She cried but very little, to my surprise, and as I did not then awaken to the realization that it was an opportunity for me to apply the truth, the correct thinking was wholly hers. I had no fear and said not a word. As soon as she was freed, she turned to where I was sitting and got up on my lap, laying her hand on my shoulder, and I caught part of what she was repeating to herself: "Put it behind me." She asked me to say the Commandments and we sat there repeating them all, as she knew only the first one without being prompted, and wanted, as she said, to "say more." Then she went off to play, with never a look at the finger. I know I did not think of looking at it.

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