Testimony of Healing January 3, 1931 Issue

Christian Science came into my home about twenty years...

Rachel Mary Kennedy

Christian Science came into my home about twenty years ago at a time of great need. My sister was in a nursing home, condemned to a life of invalidism, and two brothers were in a chronic state of ill health.

My father was a clergyman, and I was a very energetic worker in the parish, a slum parish of the most pitiful type. I had reached a place where all my efforts to help these suffering, poverty-stricken people seemed to be fruitless, and I was beginning to see that I was trying to make them understand something I did not really understand myself.

Christian Science was brought to our notice as a possible help for my sister. I had never heard the words "Christian Science" before, but I was ready to welcome anything that would help her, although I thought I did not want it for myself. However, when I saw not only my sister, but also my two brothers restored to a measure of health and happiness which before seemed impossible, it became clear to me that they had something I had not. For many months I struggled with scholastic theology, pride, self-righteousness, and igno rance; I argued with myself that I was not intellectual enough to understand Christian Science. Then, one never-to-be-forgotten day, as I turned over the leaves of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, these words on page 505 arrested my attention: "This understanding is not intellectual, is not the result of scholarly attainments; it is the reality of all things brought to light." In a moment I saw that "God is no respecter of persons," and that what the understanding and demonstration of Christian Science had done for my sister and my two brothers it could and would do for me, and I began in earnest to study the textbook. During that first study I was perfectly and permanently healed of severe inflammation in both eyes from which I had suffered most of my life; and my whole outlook on life was changed, for I had caught a glimpse of the great truth that God is Love.

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