Testimony of Healing July 25, 1931 Issue

When I found Christian Science I was a mental and...

Myrtle N. Williams

When I found Christian Science I was a mental and physical wreck. I had been taught to love God as I knew Him, and was an active member in a Christian church and Sunday school. When material methods failed to help me and one discordant condition followed another, although I could not understand the reason for it all I felt it was not God's will. One day the thought came that Job suffered many terrible things, yet his latter days were blessed ones. If this could happen to Job, it could to me. So I began to study the book of Job, apparently in vain; but right desire is never unfulfilled, as was proved to me.

A few months later the kind physician in charge, feeling he could do no more for me, ordered as a last resort a complete change of climate, scene, activity, companions. I therefore went alone to a girls' camp in Maine. Here I was placed in a cabin with several young women who proved to be students of Christian Science, and I was given the privilege of seeing a beautiful healing. This healing and their calm assurance and poise led me to question. After earnest questioning I was given the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, opened at the chapter on Prayer. I felt I had never read anything that was so beautiful, or that so completely satisfied me. I immediately resolved to investigate Christian Science, purchased the textbook, and began to attend the church services.

Several conditions were instantaneously healed with the reading of that chapter. I had never known what it was to sleep without horrible nightmares. I have never had one since. I had been suffering from gastric ulcers. While these had been greatly relieved through medical treatment, I had been warned that there was no absolute cure, and that I must be very careful what I ate. I always carried various medicines with me. I have never taken a drop of medicine since that first reading in Science and Health over nine years ago, have eaten whatever I wished, and have had no return of the trouble. Since then, for business reasons, I have had two thorough medical examinations, but in each case have been given a rating of perfect health, no trace of the gastric condition having been found.

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