Testimony of Healing July 2, 1921 Issue

I want to express my thankfulness to God and my...

Jennie W. Clark

I want to express my thankfulness to God and my gratitude to Mary Baker Eddy for Christian Science and for all the spiritual help it has been to me and to mine these past six years. I was cured six years ago of a nervous trouble which followed the passing away of one of my sons. For just a year and a half I was a complete wreck and suffered from an irritation all over my body during that length of time. Doctors told me it was all due to the nerves. At last I gave up in despair and would not try anything more. I believed a little in Christian Science, but not much. I had been interested in mental science, but that did not help me. Finally, one day a friend came to see me and found me packing my trunk. I was living alone then, in a hotel. She asked where I was going. I said, "I really don't know, but when I get there I will write you." She laughed at this, which did not please me. At a second glance she saw that I did not seem to be quite myself and prevailed upon me then and there to go with her to see a practitioner. I told her I had no faith at all in Christian Science. I knew she had none, but she said, "Come, to please me, as a last resort." So I went with her.

The practitioner asked me if I would read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and I said I would read it to please her but I did not care for it at all. Besides I did not want to get well; I wanted to go to the son whom I had lost. She said but little and then asked if I wanted treatment, and I said, "I suppose so. I came to please a friend, but that was all I came for." She smiled, gave me a book of Mrs. Eddy's to read and sat beside me for twenty minutes. On my way home I felt a spiritual uplift such as I had never felt before. That night I ate some dinner and slept soundly without any medicine. I looked at the bottle and thought, "I believe I will try to be master of this drug," and I was. Next day the rash was almost entirely gone from my face. The third day it was all gone from my face and body. I took no more medicine after that and was entirely healed in six treatments. My family and friends said it was a miracle, and it certainly was. I have been a regular attendant of the Christian Science church since that time and have found this teaching to be the truth. I only hope this may help others as I have been helped.

(Mrs.) Jennie W. Clark, New York, New York.

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