Testimony of Healing October 23, 1926 Issue

After witnessing a Christian Science healing several years...

Ellen Chorlton

After witnessing a Christian Science healing several years ago I purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, so that I might know more of this wonderful teaching. My interest in the book was held from the first reading of it; but when I began to study it in conjunction with the Bible, as given in the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lessons, I soon saw that it was indeed a "key" to the Scriptures, inasmuch as it unlocked the hidden or spiritual meaning of the Bible writings, many of which had hitherto been taken literally. Often I had read the passage, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," but I had not understood what Jesus meant. The more I study Science and Health, however, the more I understand that it indeed contains the truth about God and man's relationship to Him, which frees us from the bondage of sickness and the numerous other phases of evil which we have accepted—if we are willing to be freed.

I was freed from neuritis, fear of want in old age, and chilblains, through putting into practice the little understanding I had gained. Severe eye trouble was healed in ten days with the kindly help of a practitioner, and an acute attack of pain in the back and chest was overcome in half an hour through help lovingly given in the middle of the night. For these healings and the freedom gained I am very grateful indeed; but I am more grateful for the better understanding of what God—Life, Truth, and Love—really is, and for what it means to me in "the trivial round, the common task." I am grateful to Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, for his example; to his disciples for writing of his works and teachings; to our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for her courage and patience and unselfed devotion to mankind in giving us this beautiful and practical truth; to all the kind friends who have helped me along the way; for our Sunday services and testimony meetings; and for the privilege of membership in a society. I am grateful for the Journal, the Sentinel, and the Monitor, and for the help derived from reading them. Many, many times a comforting message from one or another of them has been the means of lifting me out of the mist of sense into the harmony of Soul.

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