Testimony of Healing October 6, 1934 Issue

Christian Science was presented to me by a relative, but...

Mary de Gruchy

Christian Science was presented to me by a relative, but I shunned it because I thought I wanted nothing to do with a religion founded by a woman. At that time I was a medical nurse, having been graduated from a fine nursing school, connected with one of the universities in the United States.

Some years later, while hastening to the bedside of my mother, the words "Christian Science" came to my thought. I had heard of Christian Science, and now my one desire was to get some of its literature to read, as I was convinced that it would heal my mother. I did not know of a textbook or practitioners.

Upon arriving at a certain city in the United States from Canada, I procured some of this precious literature from a woman who was a stranger to me but who reassured me that all was well and that God was with me. I was able to go home without fear, and found in the Journals and Sentinels that had been lovingly and joyously given me, such reasonable statements about God, man, and the universe and their relationship to each other—statements which I applied to my thinking and acting—that I was lifted above the sense of my mother's illness sufficiently to make her see that a nervous breakdown was not a part of God's creation. She was well in one month's time through my reading the periodicals aloud to her; and then we dropped the study, thinking from time to time that we should continue but always failing to do so.

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