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.

Since then we have had many healings in the home, lost things have been recovered, burns and bee stings have been healed instantaneously. My daughter sprained her ankle on a stone when jumping out of a car. She immediately declared the truth as taught in Science and Health. Next morning on waking she found her foot bent under, so she again declared the truth, and the foot went back with a sharp click. Four days later she was dancing at an entertainment, the foot perfectly normal. Our cat was bitten by a snake and was healed of lockjaw by the application of Christian Science. For these and many more healings too numerous to relate, we are very grateful.

My gratitude is unbounded to the dear friend who first told me of Christian Science, to the practitioner who so lovingly helped me, and to Mrs. Eddy for having rediscovered the glorious truth that heals, not only bodily but spiritually. My one hope is that I may be able to help others as I have been helped.—(Mrs.) Beatrice Gray, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, South Africa.

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