Testimony of Healing August 22, 1925 Issue

That the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

Mae Belle Parker

That the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is indeed a key to the Scriptures has been verified in my experience. From childhood I had been taught the orthodox interpretation of the Bible by my father, who was a Baptist clergyman. Before the age of twenty, however, I was quietly studying the Bible alone, devoting much time in the effort to reconcile statements made and commands given. Finally I decided not to concern myself further; so I laid my Bible aside, and out of sight, with the thought that sometime I should be able to understand it, and in particular comprehend just what Jesus' teaching and works meant. I then turned to various teachings, searching for helpful, uplifting theories, sifting them and accepting what seemed to me reasonable. Never having had good health from childhood, during this period I suffered much from various ailments and was in a deplorable mental state.

When I was led to study Christian Science, I was recovering from a nervous breakdown, this being the second I had experienced. As a child I had been treated by allopathic physicians, later by osteopathic and homeopathic doctors. In investigating Christian Science my desire was to learn what it was that was changing people mentally; I did not anticipate that I should be healed physically. From the time

I first opened the pages of Science and Health I studied it daily, and soon wanted my Bible, which I had not read for five years.

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