Testimony of Healing March 4, 1933 Issue

Mrs. Eddy writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 262),...

Alice Riley

Mrs. Eddy writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 262), "When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts."

It was in the latter part of the year 1923 that Christian Science was first brought to my notice through a friend who introduced me to a Christian Scientist. The first statement that I heard from this loving practitioner was that God did not send sickness and that I was not afflicted by Him but was His perfect child. Imagine my surprise, and almost rebellion, for I had been brought up by good Christian parents with the belief that God had afflicted me for a good cause. I had suffered since I was a child attending school, when I was accidentally pushed down the school steps. My parents were told by several doctors that the whole nervous system was shattered. I was treated by several doctors and specialists, and spent months at a time on my back, owing to the terrible sense of pain.

My mother, after nursing me through many severe illnesses, passed on. In her last hours she made a request to my father that he would study the Bible more, for she felt there was something she had missed. Two years later I was led to take up the study of Christian Science. For a long time it was hard for me to understand its teachings, because I was so used to material ways of healing; though from the very first I was healed of the desire to take drugs. I had always trusted God to help me bear my sufferings, as I thought He had sent them; and my daily prayer in those days was for patience. The first Christian Science service I attended was at the opening of a new church, and it was a Thanksgiving service. I was taken there, and walked in by the aid of crutches, which I had used many years. I was just full of amazement when I heard so many beautiful testimonies given; but at the time I thought, I am sure none of them have as many complaints as I have to bear.

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