Testimony of Healing February 27, 1926 Issue

I owe so much to Christian Science that I find it difficult...

Anna Rogers

I owe so much to Christian Science that I find it difficult to express in any degree what I feel. I have had many proofs of the fact that the truth does make us free, not only from physical ills but from every undesirable condition in life. When I was a girl, an able diagnostician told me that my throat was very weak, and that if I ever had trouble with it I should attend to it at once, for otherwise the result might be serious. The ensuing years seemed to justify his statement, as I was frequently under a doctor's care for various diseases of the throat. While living in London I had a severe attack of quinsy; and although I was attended by a capable English physician, my suffering was so intense that I said I hoped I should never live through a similar experience.

I returned to this country a few years later, not only sick physically but very unhappy and lonely, as I had lost everything that apparently made life worth living. Christian Science was suggested to me; but I was bitterly antagonistic, as I had had treatment by what is called mental science and thought Christian Science was the same. I decided to write an article condemning what I believed this system to be. But my sense of justice prompted me to get my information at first hand; so I went to a Reading Room and asked a few questions which I thought would stagger my hearers, but instead I was answered so logically that I must perforce be convinced. I also realized that I was in a very peaceful atmosphere, such as I had never before experienced. I felt, however, that I must have further proof. So I said: "I have had chronic constipation since I was a schoolgirl. I have tried nearly every remedy known to medical practice, and many other curative agents, and according to one of our leading doctors there is a condition of paralysis for which medicine is of no use. I may as well try Christian Science. I do not think I shall be benefited, but I shall be able to say I have given it a trial." At eight o'clock that evening I received my first treatment from a Christian Science practitioner, and before twenty-four hours had elapsed I was not only greatly benefited, but experienced for the first time in my life "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding." I decided that whatever the power was that had healed me it must be scientific, and I wanted to know more about it; so I obtained the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. And from this incomparable book I have learned something of the truth that makes us free.

Some time later I awoke one morning with the old quinsy throat. At first I was afraid. I was living alone, and my previous suffering came vividly before me; but "God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." I called a Christian Science practitioner and was instantly healed. Whereas before I had been confined to my room and bed for two weeks and could not speak, or swallow anything but liquids, I now could go about my duties—the fever, the swollen throat, and the pain all having vanished into their native nothingness.

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