Testimony of Healing January 1, 1921 Issue

I am very grateful to Christian Science for what it...

Isabel R. Gammons

I am very grateful to Christian Science for what it has done and is doing for me every day. I did not take up the study primarily for physical healing, although I was suffering from many ailments at the time. I had been bereaved of my father, also of a very dear brother, and, through misunderstandings, estranged from another brother. I was a member of a denominational church at the time, but its teachings did not give me the comfort I longed for at this unhappy time. I told my troubles to a neighbor who is a Christian Scientist, and expressed the wish that I might understand how to pray as Jesus and his disciples prayed, as I felt that I, in common with most people I then knew, did not know how to pray effectually.

This neighbor kindly lent me her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. It was while reading this book, in connection with my Bible, and other Christian Science literature, that I was healed of sorrow, also of resentment and worry. About two months afterwards, on commencing to read the literature, I became conscious of my freedom from a number of physical troubles, one of which was Bright's disease, with its attendant ills. I also had very weak eyes and was wearing very strong glasses. I began to apply what I understood of Christian Science, and my eyes became so much better that after a short time I was able to read my Bible and the textbook without glasses.

These healings all took place in 1910, since which time I have depended wholly on Christian Science to help me in every need, and have found it an unfailing help under every difficulty. My gratitude for what Christian Science means to me cannot be expressed in words. But I can truly say that the understanding of Life, creation, God and man, which it has given me, means much more to me than any of the mere physical healings, which have been many during the last ten years. All of these blessings which have come to me are due to the inspired life of our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, to whom I am most grateful.—(Mrs.)Isabel R. Gammons, Middleboro, Massachusetts.

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