Testimony of Healing October 5, 1929 Issue

In the last nine years Christian Science has resurrected...

Ruth A. Nickerson

In the last nine years Christian Science has resurrected me from many false beliefs and raised me from a state of helplessness to a life of activity. In 1915, I graduated from a nurses' training school. I followed my profession until December, 1919, when I had a nervous breakdown. Subsequent to this attack there were times when I hardly knew how I could go on with my duties. I was constantly using material remedies, both internally and externally. From the age of six years until I was seventeen years old, I had undergone four operations for tonsil and adenoid trouble. But when I wanted to enlist for service during the world war, I was told that I must have my tonsils removed. When I went to camp four months later, after feeling badly for a whole summer, I was told that I had influenza and tonsillitis in the worst form.

During this time I began to read the Bible quite frequently, especially the ninety-first psalm and the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians. My sister, a brother, and his wife were Christian Scientists; also, a dear aunt had been a Christian Scientist for many years. One day my sister came to see me at the hospital where I was staying as a patient. That evening I asked her if she would read the Christian Science Lesson-Sermon, and she did so. The next day I returned with her to Chicago and had my first Christian Science treatment. In less than three months I started to work. I have never had any throat trouble since beginning the study of Christian Science.

I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, also for class instruction.

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