Testimony of Healing March 4, 1922 Issue

With much gratitude I have turned again and again to...

Ida Marie Parr

With much gratitude I have turned again and again to the promise in Ezekiel: "I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him." This promise has indeed been fulfilled in our home. Christian Science was first brought to us when I was four years old by my grandmother, who came to visit us from a distant city. She had been healed by the truth and was radiant with this newly found spiritual joy. But in spite of the many proofs of its healing efficacy while she was with us, we were not ready to accept it and became very bitter toward her and what we thought Christian Science to be, thinking that she had become a religious fanatic.

In the years that followed this experience we had a great sorrow and many distressing times of sickness and lack, until I reached the age of twelve. At this time my father was visiting at the home of his brother who loaned him a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which he brought home to me, saying that he had read it and found that it was really the truth for which we had been searching. He also told me that it would answer all of the questions I had asked him so many times about the Bible and God. I literally devoured the textbook, and my Bible became a precious possession. However, this spiritual progress was not to be continued very long, as my mother's thought was apparently as antagonistic as ever. The textbook was put away and we were told never to look at it again.

Under protest, I continued to attend a Protestant Sunday school until two years later, when I became very ill and had to be taken out of school. After being under a physician's care for several months, and in the meantime pondering in my heart some of the spiritual facts gleaned from that short reading of Science and Health, I asked to be allowed to attend the Christian Science Sunday school. With due deliberation on my mother's part, she reluctantly consented to allow me to go for just one Sunday. I went, and was healed that day, during the explanation of the lesson on "God," of heart trouble and an abscess which had been discharging for weeks. I shall never forget the realization of God's allness which was given me during that hour. It has indeed been a firm foundation on which to build. After such a proof of the fruits of Christian Science as this, I was allowed to continue in the Sunday school and was able to return to school and finish my education.

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