Testimony of Healing June 27, 1925 Issue

Many years ago, when I first heard of Christian Science,...

Frances Tibbits

Many years ago, when I first heard of Christian Science, I did not think of it as being anything I wanted; but a short time afterward I met some very cultured people who were students of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and who had been healed of various ills. Then I thought it must be good, or people with such experience would not accept it. A young man who was their bookkeeper also had been healed of a supposedly incurable disease of the throat, and he lent me his Science and Health. The first chapter, that on Prayer, lifted the scales from my eyes, and I knew it was the truth. I could hardly wait for my own copy to come from The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston. Since then I have never wanted drugs, as my belief in their supposed healing power left me entirely.

In the summer of 1920, I was stricken with a form of typhoid fever. Of course, I wanted a Christian Science practitioner, but as we were living some distance from one, and it seemed hard to reach him at once, my husband, not being a Scientist, brought home a doctor. I declared to them that I could not take the medicine after depending on God so long for everything, and that He would not forsake me now. The doctor, however, thought he had better put up some medicine, as I might need it before the practitioner arrived; but I had no desire to take it. In a short while after the dear, patient practitioner came, I was able to sit up and ride thirty miles in an automobile to my son's home. My daughter-in-law, two sons, and the practitioner accompanied me. As a result of the scientific work of the practitioner I was perfectly healed. I have also been healed of a weak heart and of other ills supposed to have been inherited from my mother. Now I know that we have one perfect Father-Mother, God, and that His children, made in His image and likeness, must be perfect also.

I am invited to the home of some Christian Scientists once in a while to attend a lecture and church services. Words cannot express the good I get at these times. I want to thank all the workers on our Christian Science periodicals for their faithful work. I wish to express my love and gratitude for all who have helped me along the way from sense to Soul. I am thankful for the little I know of Christian Science, and for Mrs. Eddy, who was so devout as to make it possible for us to have this truth. My greatest desire is to give as I have received of the good that is here for us.

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