Testimony of Healing December 26, 1931 Issue

During my childhood days I was considered delicate,...

Letitia C. Enders

During my childhood days I was considered delicate, and my education had many interruptions by periods of ill health. After my marriage I seemed to suffer more and require more medicine, more changes of climate and people. But there comes a time in our lives when the perplexing problems of material existence reach a climax. It was at this time, when all seemed dark, and there was no hope of my recovery, that the "still small voice" came to me and told me to try Christian Science. I had no idea what it was or how to go about getting the help I needed so much; but I soon found out where a practitioner was located, and went to him. I asked him if he could heal me. He said, "God can." I thought, If it is God who heals I need not tell this man that I have an inherited disease, one my mother passed away with. Just a few days before this I had been told I could never go through another attack. I knew that if God healed the sick, He knew all things. So I asked this practitioner to give me a treatment. I took home with me "The People's Idea of God" by Mrs. Eddy.

As soon as I entered my home I gathered all the medicine and medical appliances that were in the house and destroyed them. I wanted God in my home; I wanted to get well to do all I could for my dear children and husband. I sat down and began to read. I found out that there was a Christian Science textbook, so I went to the practitioner's office and obtained a copy of this book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I wanted to know whether, if I read the book, I could keep myself well. His reply was, "yes, indeed; if you apply its teachings." I told him then that I had been healed of two inherited diseases—tuberculosis of the bowels and sick headaches.

No one who has not passed through an experience of years of suffering can understand the peace and restfulness that came to me. I truly was born again. I learned to know God anew, to know Him as Life and Truth. I have had many other proofs of God's mercy. One I will mention was the sustaining power which I felt while passing through what to mortal sense is the hardest of experiences, the giving up of both a daughter and a mother within two months. I worked vigorously for several months to realize there is in reality no death. Peace came to me while reading an article by our Leader entitled, "Hear, O Israel" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 296). In speaking of a student Mrs. Eddy said, "He is wiser to-day, healthier and happier, than yesterday." I thought, How can I grieve? So I turned to God and vowed that I would be obedient to Him in doing good and in reflecting the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus."

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