Testimony of Healing June 17, 1922 Issue

My mother became interested in Christian Science when...

Emma L. Page

My mother became interested in Christian Science when seventy years of age, and was so earnest that she induced me to try it. I had a goiter on my neck, which had been troubling me for three years. At night I was obliged to sleep sitting up in bed with pillows behind me, as lying down affected the heart. I was weak and filled with fear. I had been to several specialists in both Boston and New York, and each one said that "the kind" I had could never be cured.

Then I had a loving letter from my mother asking me to try Christian Science. She also inclosed the name of a practitioner in Boston, and said, "If you are not healed, you will be no worse." So I thought I would go to see the practitioner. After I had told her about my condition she seemed to me so indifferent that I felt as if she did not understand the seriousness of it. I told her this; and she said, "If, while you were talking, I have so firmly denied the error that you feel I did not believe it, you will recover." In three weeks I was entirely healed; and I was so grateful and relieved to be healed in such a short time. I was helped so much by the loving thoughts given me by the practitioner that they have remained with me and have blessed me. Then I followed my mother's example, and emptied out all the medicine I possessed, and burned the medical books I had so relied upon. Since then I have had better health than ever before. I often think of how filled with fear I was on being told by several physicians that I could not live two years; and this was nearly twenty years ago. So time has proved that the verse in Ecclesiastes is true, "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever."

I am most grateful for all the writings of our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and for her great gift to this age. I am very grateful for Christian Science.

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