Testimony of Healing April 13, 1929 Issue

Over eighteen years ago I began the study of Christian Science....

Carrie S. Sanders

Over eighteen years ago I began the study of Christian Science. I did not take it up for myself, but to read with my sister, who was greatly in need of help and for whom the doctors could do no more. Through conversation with a cousin, who is not a Christian Scientist, but who knew of several who had been healed through Christian Science, my sister became interested; and soon after I began reading the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I found it was just what I wanted and so greatly needed, for I too was in need of help physically, mentally, and spiritually. I had been a member of a so-called orthodox church almost all my life, but its teachings never satisfied me. I was always looking for something I never gained until I found it in Christian Science, namely, the knowledge that God is Love, that God is Mind, the only intelligence, and that evil and everlasting punishment are not real. We have had many healings during this time, and have been helped in every way, being led many times by ways we knew not of.

I have seen measles, chicken pox, smallpox, influenza, colds, injuries, and a broken bone healed in a very short time. Several years ago my little girl, then about two years old, was being carried down a steep incline by her cousin a few years older. The latter was running as fast as she could, and when she came to the sidewalk she fell with my child in her arms, the little one striking her forehead on the walk. An elder cousin picked her up and brought her to the house. We began working for her as we are taught in Christian Science, and in about half an hour she seemed to be easy, and as we had company I put her down and went on with my work. The swelling and discoloration disappeared. The second night after, as my sister was putting her to bed, she noticed a soft, hollow place in her forehead. We immediately called a practitioner and went to work ourselves. This was healed in less than three days, leaving not a trace of soreness or tenderness.

At another time my elder daughter, then about five years old, awoke one morning seemingly quite ill. She and I worked, knowing the truth about God, and that man is His perfect child. I read to her from Science and Health. She would repeat the Lord's Prayer, then lie quietly, and I would not know whether she was sleeping or not; then she would arouse herself and repeat this prayer. This went on the greater part of the day and part of the night. The next morning she was entirely healed, and so happy to go to Sunday school. I was healed of influenza, which seemed very severe, in one night. In the morning I was free to go about my work as usual. My husband was healed of rheumatism when it seemed so severe he could scarcely walk; also of the tobacco habit of many years' standing.

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