Testimony of Healing December 12, 1931 Issue

I first learned of Christian Science about nine years ago...

Evelyn Vera Butler

I first learned of Christian Science about nine years ago through a very dear friend. For three years I had spent the greater part of my time in bed, as I had what the doctors termed a very bad case of malaria. One doctor, after treating me for almost a year, said that as he was sure he had given me enough strong medicine to destroy the malaria in my system, he could not understand why I did not improve. It was then that I began to lose all faith in medicines, as I knew that I was no better either mentally or physically, but rather worse. I had gradually become thinner and weaker, weighing less than sixty pounds at the age of sixteen years, and being so weak that I could hardly walk without assistance and had to be carried up and down stairs.

It was in this condition that Christian Science found me. My healing was slow, as it was over a year before my health was completely restored, but to the dear practitioner who so patiently and lovingly helped me every step of the way I am deeply grateful. Gradually my strength returned and I became a picture of health, my weight increasing to a hundred and twenty-five pounds. My healing was so wonderful that friends who had seen me during those years of sickness and then saw me after my health was restored could hardly believe I was the same girl.

Before learning of Christian Science I had often become very much discouraged and wished that I might pass on, as it seemed to me that I was only a burden to those who loved me, especially to my mother, who so patiently cared for me during those years of ill health. I also spent a great deal of time reading the Bible and praying God to heal me, as I wondered why He would not heal us to-day just as He did when Christ Jesus was on earth; and so I know that Christian Science came into my life as a direct answer to my prayer.

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