Testimony of Healing September 20, 1930 Issue

When Christian Science was first presented to me, it...

Alice Phelps

When Christian Science was first presented to me, it made me very angry. I did not at all understand its meaning; therefore I would have none of it. After a few years of great suffering I came across a Sentinel open at an article entitled "Christian Healing," and I heard the words quite plainly, as though spoken aloud to me, This is for you; it is what you need. I read an article each day for a few days and felt so much benefited that I procured the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and began to study this wonderful book, which ever turns thought in the right direction, opening up to us the Bible with all its beautiful promises. I am especially grateful for the healing of a very distressing cough, which I had had from babyhood, through a church member's quoting some of these same promises to me. When I left her home I was free, and a wonderful sense of peace had come to me. Following this, through study, a severe form of asthma, from which several physicians had informed me I could never be free, disappeared, as did also a tendency to colds. I have also been healed by loving practitioners of other discordant conditions, such as quinsy, a large abscess, closed tonsils, and appendicitis. I have been protected in many ways, receiving only a slight bruise on one arm when I fell down the cellar stairs, and only a discoloration of the back when I fell through a trap door; and in jumping from a falling ladder I received no hurt.

I am grateful for these experiences, as they teach us that God is a God at hand to heal, protect, and sustain us always. I am grateful for loving help along the way from kind practitioners and friends, and to God, the Giver of all good, for sending us our great Way-shower, Christ Jesus, to teach us of the life more abundant. I am also grateful to our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, who so courageously faced the scorn of error to make demonstrable the teachings of Christ Jesus. — (Mrs.) Alice Phelps, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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