Testimony of Healing July 8, 1922 Issue

I have no words to express my thankfulness for all the...

Vivienne T. Buffington

I have no words to express my thankfulness for all the good that has come into my life through Christian Science. It came to me nearly nineteen years ago, almost as a direct answer to prayer for a Christian faith. I always hoped to be a Christian, but early in my girlhood formed a distaste for much that I heard from the pulpit; and I rarely attended religious services after I was sixteen years of age. In my twenty-first year, I became fervently prayerful to be quickly shown the way to draw near to God, and began an attempt to study the Bible for myself. I felt instinctively that my help would not come through the churches; though I had not the remotest thought that it would come through Christian Science.

Soon after this, I married and went to live in the home of my husband's parents. His mother was the first Christian Scientist I ever knew, and her daily life gave me much food for thought. I soon observed where she went to get that which was so soothing and sustaining to her household; and it was not long before I, too, began to read from the "little book," "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. It seemed to promise all that I had ever looked or hoped for in a Christian faith, though it was seven or eight years before I was able to grasp it in a way to make me feel the moral obligation to become a Christian Scientist.

Soon after I became interested in Christian Science, my two-year-old baby was quickly healed of a serious bowel disorder that had been epidemic in the town for several weeks, proving fatal to many babies. A doctor had labored ineffectively with our baby for three weeks; but three days after his treatment was discontinued and a Christian Science practitioner secured, the baby was playing in the yard. The child was so hungry that it was a great relief to me when the practitioner informed me that she might have any food that might be given a normal child of her age.

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