Testimony of Healing September 13, 1930 Issue

I did not turn to Christian Science for physical healing,...

Rose Maxwell

I did not turn to Christian Science for physical healing, but tried to discover whether adverse criticism, heard from an orthodox pulpit, were true. I borrowed from a public library a copy of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. From the very first page the book was so comforting and so logical that I read it every moment I could spare from my work.

From childhood I had experienced a great deal of trouble with my eyes, and just a few months previous to my borrowing the textbook I had begun to suffer so severely that I had become very much alarmed. I was also troubled almost continually with headaches. An oculist was consulted, and I was fitted with glasses, but this gave me only slight relief. During this first reading of Science and Health, in my hurry to finish the book I would forget to put on my glasses; and when I was about halfway through I found that I had no need for them, and that the pain was entirely gone. This occurred over twelve years ago, and there has been no return of the difficulty.

I have received many healings in the years that have followed. Not all of them have come so easily as the above; and many times it has been necessary to seek the aid of a Christian Science practitioner. But I am grateful for the better understanding of God which has always come with the healings. The glimpse of reality gained in a long and trying struggle is a greater blessing than the physical relief.

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