Testimony of Healing February 12, 1921 Issue

Christian Science found me while I was reading many...

Velma Schmidt

Christian Science found me while I was reading many things of a religious nature with the idea of making a right choice for church membership. When I read the chapter on "Prayer" in Science and Health it seemed that my need in that direction had been met. I had found the truth, and I shall never forget the quiet sense of satisfaction and gratitude that entered my thought with the first reading of that divinely inspired book. This quiet sense did not, however, remain with me continuously, for there have been many instances of fear and disturbance since, but each overcoming has meant a step nearer the truth.

Gradually chronic sick headaches and colds have been healed, and a sprained ankle was healed in a little more than twenty-four hours. When I was forced to remain flat on my back for three weeks on account of a broken leg, Christian Science treatment kept me as comfortable as one would be any night when normally at rest. I am now most grateful, however, for the healing, even though it was slow, and for that "gentle presence, peace and joy and power," which was the real healing, and of which Mrs. Eddy speaks in her well-known poem, "Mother's Evening Prayer" (Poems, p. 4):—

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