Testimony of Healing February 16, 1924 Issue

After years spent in the fruitless study of various philosophies...

Eunice F. Maurer

After years spent in the fruitless study of various philosophies and religions, sickness at length brought me near death's door, and I felt as never before the need of an understanding of God. In my extremity, I prayed as I had never prayed before that God would reveal Himself to me. I was shocked in a few days to receive a gift of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. It seemed a strange answer to an earnest prayer. At first I wanted to destroy the book, but finally decided to read it. An awakened sense of justice made it appear narrow to bar one book when I had tried all the rest. However, for the first time in my life, I guarded myself with the vow that I would accept nothing from its pages which I could not prove for myself was the truth. I kept that vow, and proved, and proved, and proved. It took two years to read it through the first time; for during that reading I had to change my whole view of life, reconstruct in the light of Truth what I had gleaned from my college training, and part with many of my beliefs of what I had supposed to be right living and right activity. Many a time I stopped days or weeks over a single sentence or paragraph, unable to go on until Love brought an experience whose only solution came when I accepted, acknowledged, and gave thanks for a statement whose veracity I had challenged.

Through that reading I found God to be a very present help so many times that I knew Him to be all that Christian Science claimed. I had proved it. I knew I had found a book that is not another exposition of human opinions, subject to change, but that it is "divinely authorized" (Quarterly, p. 4), that it teaches the living, operative truth. Besides all this, as is always the case in the honest study of Christian Science, I gained other treasures for which I had not asked. One of these unlooked-for blessings was good health.

When first I read the textbook, I gave no thought to the question of health. Hence it was with a sense of amazement that I woke up one day to the realization that, physically, I had become a very different person. Several diseases carried from childhood, or supposed to have been inherited, had disappeared so completely from my thought and experience that I could scarcely recall a time when I had believed in their reality. The first healing was from the use of glasses. I had worn them for eight years for all close looking, needing to have them strengthened often in that time. Very early in my reading of Science and Health the glasses pained me when reading the textbook, while for a time they were comfortable for other reading. At length I recognized the fallacy of the law trying to bind me, and with the declaration that I did not need the aid of matter to help me see the truth, the glasses were laid aside. Although my eyes have been used more since then than ever before my sight has been normal. At the same time an inherited tendency for malaria was overcome.

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