Testimony of Healing June 4, 1932 Issue

A few years ago I visited an old friend whom I had not...

Beatrice Gray

A few years ago I visited an old friend whom I had not seen for years. At that time I was rather interested in theosophy, as the orthodox church to which I belonged did not satisfy me, and in the course of a conversation I mentioned it to my friend, and then she began to tell me about Christian Science. For two hours we talked, but she did not convince me. However, after I returned home, she used to send me a Sentinel every week, which I seldom read. Soon afterward I became very ill, and for two years I was under medical care. After I had been sent to three different hospitals, no hope was held out to me unless I had an operation. I would not consent to this, and I thought, and my friends did too, that I should soon pass on.

One day, while feeling worse than ever, I was prompted to write and ask my friend about Christian Science. She wrote me loving letters, explaining things to me, and I began to read the Sentinels. Seeing "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy mentioned so often in the testimonies, I bought one and began to read it. A few days later a friend, whom I had only lately met, called to see me. I was lying prostrate on my bed, just after an attack of jaundice in its worst form, from which I had been suffering for two years. "Oh," she said, "can I help you?" I answered, "I don't care what you do, if you can help this awful pain." I did not know she was a practitioner, but I knew she was a Christian Scientist. Neither did I know what a Christian Science treatment was, so I did not understand, when she sat silent for a few minutes, that she was giving me a treatment; but I did know that about half an hour afterwards I was up and walked into another room, and from that day I began to mend. Indigestion, constipation, sick headaches—all disappeared at the time of this healing; and since then, seven years ago, I have been a healthy woman, able to eat anything that has been set before me. Previous to this healing I had been kept on a special diet for years.

A few weeks after my healing I was alone in the house, reading Science and Health, when I heard a noise in the garden, and on going out, found that my dog had bitten a native boy who had come with a letter. The dog had bitten his hand, severely lacerating it. I felt rather sick, but said to myself, "Now is the time to prove Christian Science." I had just been reading in Science and Health (p. 323), "In order to apprehend more, we must put into practice what we already know," so I took the boy and washed the hand, repeating the Lord's Prayer. I then bound up the hand, and told him not to touch it, but to come to me the next day to have it washed. When he came the next day, I must confess I wondered if I should have to send him to the hospital to have it sewed up, and felt a bit frightened; but, on removing the bandage, I found the flesh had begun to heal and was clean, with no inflammation at all. So I again washed it, while again repeating the Lord's Prayer. Next day the boy did not come, and on inquiry I was told his hand was all right. That proved to me that Christian Science can heal anything.

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