Testimony of Healing December 20, 1924 Issue

No words of mine can express the deep gratitude I feel...

Ida W. Straub

No words of mine can express the deep gratitude I feel for the privilege of having some knowledge of Christian Science. It came about more than twenty years ago through a person that my husband and I had known a short time, who followed that religion. I was in ill health, and in despair of ever being well. Through the help of this friend, my husband procured the services of a Christian Science practitioner. After the first two treatments, to my great surprise, conditions assumed a much better aspect. I was greatly helped. I was willing to be healed, but had not lost al faith in materia medica; nor was I free from prejudice toward what I thought was Christian Science. I was helped to a certain point, when the practitioner was called to another city. Then came a period of return to suffering, doubt, and conjecture. Christian Science was new to us, and we derifted like a ship without a rudder for some weeks. I remember that during that time I even resorted to an old remedy, but it failed.

My husband had been reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy from an unbiased standpoint, and had been receiving benefit. He was relieved of serious stomach conditions that had troubled him for years; also, he laid aside glasses that he had worn steadily for sixteen years. He had gained some understanding, and was lovingly urging me not to talk to him about my sufferings, thus making them seem real, but to read the book more.

I was discouraged. I believed people had been healed through Christian Science, but I did not believe it would heal me. I felt I was ill, that it was real suffering, and that there was too much the matter with me to be healed by reading a book; furthermore, if it took away the sympathy of one's husband, I felt I did not want to know any more about it,—all the erroneous reasoning of mortal mind. I was in this frame of mind when my husband secured the services of another practitioner. When I explained to her how I felt, she said very simply, "You are willing that Christian Science should heal you, are you not?" I replied, "I think I am."

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