Testimony of Healing March 23, 1929 Issue

I came into Christian Science for physical healing fifteen...

Kay M. Perkins

I came into Christian Science for physical healing fifteen years ago, following the premature birth of a child with serious results, an experience which for five months afterward caused great suffering. Everything humanly possible was done for me, but without avail. Finally I was told by two leading physicians that it would be highly improbable for me to get well without an operation. Desperately I told myself that I would try almost anything and everything before submitting to it.

From my high school days I had been quite a broad and deep reader, and among other things I had read something about Christian Science. The beauty of its literature impressed me deeply, as well as the uplifting thoughts it presented, but that was as far as I got with it then. Apparently, however, more than the mere beauty of it had impressed me—far more than I realized; for in my great need my thoughts turned to Christian Science as a definite healing agency, and immediately I began making arrangements toward this end.

At this time we were living in a city in West Virginia in which there were no Christian Science practitioners, so I secured the name of a dear woman seventy-five miles away. My first words to her asking for immediate help were by wire, followed by an explanatory letter. After a period of unusually intense suffering, I shall never forget the beautiful sense of peace that came to me upon the receipt of her answer to my wire with the words from Isaiah, "In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength," and stating that work had already been taken up in my behalf. In less than an hour I experienced the first semblance of freedom from pain that I had known for many days, besides a wonderful sense of calm, peace, and confidence which, even yet, I can happily recall as being so unusual under the existing circumstances. Then I began the study of Christian Science, deeply, persistently, and faithfully, with confidence, hope, and joy.

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