Testimony of Healing May 15, 1920 Issue

It was about fifteen years ago that I had my first treatment...

Anna Aldeson Railey

It was about fifteen years ago that I had my first treatment in Christian Science. Since seven years of age I had been a continual sufferer from spinal trouble, as a result of a fall. One day after having exhausted everything else for this and other ailments, both mental and physical, I sought aid through a Christian Science practitioner. Within an hour I was relieved of the intense pain in my back and from then on I continued to seek and to be benefited.

One year after that I took up the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and I have found it never failing when properly applied. I have been healed of gallstones, stomach trouble, and severe headaches. Several years ago I was wonderfully healed of a condition concerning which physicians said only an operation would give relief,—that of abscesses on the liver. This was my first experience of mental surgery. I am learning more and more that "to those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings" (Science and Health, Pref., p. vii), and that I cannot take a halfway position, I cannot serve God and mammon. In Science and Health we read (p. 183), "Divine Mind rightly demands man's entire obedience, affection, and strength."

The Commandments and Beatitudes were given to meet our need, showing us what to know and how to live, and in proportion to their application are we rewarded. "God is no respecter of persons,"—His great and unbounded love is for all, now. He draws very near to us in times of distress and sorrow and is a never failing Comforter. My gratitude to God is greater than I can find words to express. To Mrs. Eddy, the church, and all of the dear friends who have so faithfully and lovingly assisted me in knowing and applying this truth I am grateful. It is my prayer that I may give good as lovingly and as freely as it has been given me.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Testimony of Healing

To-day while reading a certain testimony in the Sentinel,...