Testimony of Healing May 5, 1928 Issue

I took up the study of Christian Science in 1895 for...

Alice Mary Turner

I took up the study of Christian Science in 1895 for physical healing, everything else having failed to give me relief. In childhood I was considered very delicate, being subject to colds and croup on the slightest exposure to the weather, and was always carefully guarded by a loving mother or other members of the family. For many years during the winter and spring I had severe attacks of bronchial fever, which lasted for weeks and left me in a very much weakened condition. This later developed into lung trouble with complications; and for seven years I experienced great suffering which human help seemed powerless to alleviate, each year growing weaker and more discouraged. I had several physicians on my case, but with no results, the last one in attendance saying there was no hope for me, as there was nothing to build on, and no strength with which to resist. I was given only a few months to live.

Being urged by a sister to try Christian Science, I took up the study of it and asked for help from a practitioner. After three years of earnest, consecrated study and occasional help from a practitioner, I found myself doing things I had thought would never be possible, going about in all sorts of weather in the Middle West, and daily gaining strength. And here let me say that the healing has been permanent. I am grateful that it was slow, for it made me a student and fitted me for future work.

Only those who have suffered a like experience can know how grateful I am for this healing, and for the years of health, strength, endurance, and activity that have since been mine. But far above and beyond the physical healing is my gratitude for spiritual healing through the understanding of what God is and of man's relation to Him. Since my healing there has never been the slightest doubt but that Christian Science is the truth, and there has never been the least temptation to study any other literature on healing or on religion apart from the Christian Science textbooks. I have found that the literature published by The Christian Science Publishing Society has met my every need, and I am sincerely grateful for it. Mrs. Eddy says on page 453 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Honesty is spiritual power. Dishonesty is human weakness, which forfeits divine help." I have found this the true means of growth, and my gratitude can best be expressed by living the life of a Christian Scientist the best I know.

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