Testimony of Healing April 14, 1934 Issue

About sixteen years ago I asked myself the following...

Genevieve Tompkins

About sixteen years ago I asked myself the following questions: What has the future to offer me? All my life I have known nothing but illness and doctors, and for the past year have had osteopathic treatments; I have always been deprived by ill health of the freedom and pursuits others enjoy. What have I to look forward to? These queries were followed by the declaration, I believe only God can help me. I have since realized that this despairing appeal was heard, for that night Christian Science was presented to me, and the following day an appointment was made with a practitioner. Knowing nothing about Christian Science I had no prejudices to overcome, and after a few absent treatments I felt so much better that I told the practitioner to discontinue work. The day of the second treatment I hiked, climbed, and rowed all day and realized that I could count on my fingers the days that I had done this without thinking of my body all the time. But not until the following week did I connect it with the practitioner's work.

Though I was drawn to read the Christian Science textbook every spare moment, I did not grasp the import of its message, and when the book was returned, I forgot all about it. However, a few months later when troubled with tonsillitis, which had confined me to my home for at least two weeks each winter, I remembered how I had been helped before. The same practitioner treated me, and there has never been a return of this ailment. A copy of Science and Health was purchased at this time and I was conscious of a great sense of happiness as I walked out of the Reading Room with this little book. It has been my constant companion, and I have never thought of taking a drop of medicine since that time.

With thinking of my eyes, I was healed of the necessity for wearing glasses while having treatment for other troubles. I had returned home for a three days' visit, and not until I was ready to leave was I aware that I had not worn the glasses during my stay. For some twelve years I had experienced great suffering if I was without them for an hour. I have never felt the need for them since, though in my work as a designer I have used my eyes constantly, often for minute work.

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