Testimony of Healing November 15, 1930 Issue

When I came into Christian Science at the age of eight...

Virginia Ratcliffe

When I came into Christian Science at the age of eight I was considered a sickly child, and hardly a week passed that I would not be sick. I was continually bothered with stomach trouble, for which I was forced to take quantities of medicine. At the age of fourteen I was healed of this, and I now eat anything without any ill effects. I was also healed of a severe case of inflammatory rheumatism which I had had nearly every winter for several years. During this time, I was taken to the home of a practitioner, where I was lovingly taken care of. The attack started a week before Christmas, and after having treatment in Christian Science for a week, I awoke on Christmas morning completely healed. This healing took place over ten years ago, and I have had no return of the trouble.

For many years I had a fear of being taken sick, or of an accident while on a mountain trip, and I should like to relate how this fear was overcome. I had never been affected by high altitude, but once when I was climbing Pike's Peak, and had reached the top, I was taken sick and was not able to stand. A friend in the party, who was also a Scientist, telephoned to Denver to a practitioner asking for help, and I was soon able to eat something and to walk back to the camp with the others.

Some time ago I suffered for about two months from trouble with both ankles; they became swollen and painful. When the swelling went down, the ankles were about twice their natural size, and felt and looked as though a sheet of bone had grown over them. This condition yielded slowly, but it was finally overcome through a constant study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and the Christian Science periodicals.

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