Testimony of Healing May 17, 1924 Issue

About three years ago curiosity took me to the first...

Rose Koehler Briggs

About three years ago curiosity took me to the first Christian Science service I ever attended. It was a Wednesday evening testimony meeting; and as I listened to the first three or four testimonies, I thought, They can't be telling the truth. But as I listened to more, the thought came to me: Surely these people would not say these things if they were not true. If they are true, then this is what I have been looking for all my life, and the Christian Science God is the God I have sought for in vain; indeed, this is the God to whom I can go in every need.

I had never seen a copy of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy; but I was so impressed by what I had heard that I felt a great desire to see a copy of this book. Having a friend (not a Scientist) who owned a copy, I asked her if I might look at it. I read it for some days at intervals, but it seemed to be only words, words, words. And yet, unconsciously, I was healed of chronic constipation and many other minor physical troubles.

With the help of a Christian Science practitioner I have been permanently healed of a disease for which several physicians told me I would have to be operated upon, but they could not promise me permanent relief. I am deeply grateful for these physical healings; but the spiritual uplift I have received through the study of Christian Science and the understanding I am daily gaining of the Bible, with its wonderful promises, have brought into my life a new joy. I can now go to the God of love whenever I need to, and can trust Him at all times. It makes no difference what the problem may be,—how big it seems, whether it be a physical or a financial difficulty,—I am learning to "leave it with Him;" and as I am willing and obedient, I do eat the "good of the land," realizing that "peace of God, which passeth all understanding."

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