Testimony of Healing July 30, 1921 Issue

When Christian Science was first mentioned to me, I had...

Anna F. Loomis

When Christian Science was first mentioned to me, I had hopelessly accepted the decree of prominent physicians on two continents. I say "hopelessly" because they had told me that a serious operation was the only chance of relief from a physical condition that was causing me such constant pain that I had ceased to think life worth the effort. The anguish was due to neglect at the time of the birth of my second child and was growing worse steadily, and these well meaning doctors could see no other way than to operate, nor could they give me any definite assurance of relief after undergoing such an ordeal. While on my way home I met a Christian Scientist, and he told me what Christian Science had become to him and to his family. He kindly recommended it to me, and leaving a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, he asked me to look it over. I opened it at various places but it seemed of an unknown tongue, for I could not understand it, though I had always deemed myself capable of reading English intelligently. I had no thought that it could help me, but to be courteous I assured the gentleman that I would visit a practitioner at my earliest convenience.

When the opportunity presented itself, unknown to any one I went to see a practitioner. I told her I was supposed to be ill and would like to hear what she had to tell me. She seemed to understand and I asked her to help me. That one treatment brought the healing, and when I arose to go I knew I was a changed person. I knew I was healed. I went home, destroyed the remedies and appliances the doctors had said I must never be without, and set out for a walk. I remained out for two hours, rejoicing every step of the way, thanking God and resolving to take up the study—to give my best thought to the effort to find out the cause of this great change which had come over me so suddenly. It was the new birth that Jesus speaks of in John, and which Mrs. Eddy refers to on page 548 of Science and Health, where she says, "This is the new birth going on hourly, by which men may entertain angels, the true ideas of God, the spiritual sense of being."

This happened many years ago and I have never had a return of the trouble in any form. Many other complaints have been overcome and I have rejoiced exceedingly in a gradual awakening to better habits of thinking, a new interpretation of Life, a new hope. Mary Baker Eddy deserves appreciation as one of the greatest benefactors mankind has ever known, restoring to a sick and weary world the teaching and healing taught and practiced by Christ Jesus, opening for spiritual joy and peace the Book of books that all may read with understanding. Is it strange that Christian Scientists are grateful?—(Mrs.) Anna F. Loomis, Reno, Nevada.

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