Testimony of Healing February 6, 1926 Issue

About fifteen years ago I first attended a Christian Science...

Lydia J. Purman

About fifteen years ago I first attended a Christian Science church. I was attracted by the peaceful, harmonious atmosphere, as well as by the testimonies of healing. I began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. There was a strong appeal in this wonderful new teaching, and I felt its beneficent influence. On the other hand, so many objections arose according to the former beliefs in which I had been brought up, that I was as a pendulum swinging between Truth and these old beliefs.

About six years later I was about to take up nursing as a vocation, this to include the study of medicine. On the evening previous to making final arrangements I was taken with such intense pains and weakness that I could hardly move my body. According to general diagnosis, it was sciatic rheumatism. Now my thought again turned to Christian Science, and a friend called a practitioner for me. She came back with the message that I telephone at seven that evening. A sense of peace and assurance came over me, and I rested quietly until at half past five I suddenly felt the effect of the vitalizing power of Truth. A healthy stimulus was felt throughout the body; and whereas I had been too weak to move in bed, I now arose and dressed. I called up the practitioner that evening at the given time and asked if a treatment had been given and at what time. It coincided exactly with my healing. Just previously I had prayed that this incident would prove to me whether or not Christian Science were the truth; and the healing was a beautiful, conclusive proof in answer. It would be almost needless to add that medical nursing as a vocation was given up and another more suitable occupation taken up; later a home was established. For these temporal blessings I am indeed grateful, but more so for the truth which frees us from bondage.

For the privilege of working in God's vineyard I am grateful. I have been a member of The Mother Church and a branch church for a number of years. The church is surely "that institution, which affords proof of its utility" (Science and Health, p. 583), having so many avenues of activity for its members for the purpose of distributing the word of Truth. I am also grateful for class instruction; grateful to the teacher who so faithfully pointed the way; to our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy; and to Christ Jesus, the Way-shower.

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