Testimony of Healing December 6, 1924 Issue

I did not take up the study of Christian Science for...

Sannie Alice W. Allen

I did not take up the study of Christian Science for physical healing, but because I wanted to know more of a God who is available at all times and under all circumstances. When a child I had attended an orthodox Sunday school, but had not gained the faintest understanding of the Scriptures or of God. My Sunday school experience had been looked on as merely pleasing from the standpoint of association with other children.

Several years ago, a sister was healed through Christian Science; and later, when I visited her, I was taken to a Christian Science church much against my inclination. After attending services a few times I began to realize that Christian Scientists had something that other church people, with whom I had been associated, lacked; and I began to want that something. I obtained a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and a Christian Science Quarterly, and started the daily study of the Lesson-Sermon.

My journey from sense to Soul has been slow, and I used to wish I might have a physical difficulty so that I might have a healing and experience that spiritual uplift which I thought must accompany physical healing. The first healing I admitted was that of sorrow over the passing on of a friend. I was greatly comforted by the treatments of a practitioner, but still that dwarfing question "Why?" held me in bondage. One week the Lesson-Sermon contained the account of the healing of the Canaanite woman's daughter; and the thought came, She got what she asked by being satisfied to receive even the crumbs; and when I am grateful for good already received, I too shall receive that for which I long. From that time I began to see what I was gaining by my study, and I realized that I had been expecting to wear the crown before I bore the cross.

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