Testimony of Healing February 22, 1936 Issue

I did not take up the study of Christian Science for...

Alberta M. Edgar

I did not take up the study of Christian Science for physical healing, but through a desire to know more about God. I had been reared in an orthodox church from the time I was six years old, but I was never satisfied with its explanation of God. The textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was lent to me by a friend in 1917. As I read, I found it was what I had been seeking. At that time I had a great desire for peace and happiness which seemed to have been taken from me. I became so absorbed in reading the marvelous statements of truth in the textbook, especially the chapter on Prayer, that I was unaware of a healing—that of wearing glasses which I had worn for fifteen years. This did not seem so wonderful at the time, but in the year 1918 I succumbed to influenza; then a nervous breakdown, asthma, and tuberculosis in their severest form added to my misery. It took a little over three and a half years to complete the healing of asthma and tuberculosis, but cancer of the bowels was healed in two absent treatments by a practitioner. With this healing bitterness, sorrow, regrets, hatred, and condemnation disappeared to a very large extent.

Now I am so grateful for the three and a half years, not because the healing took that long, but because of the grand opportunity to learn patience, gratitude, and love. To forgive seemed the test. The complete healing took place when I learned to forgive and also to forget, for a thing is never really forgiven until forgotten. I am extremely grateful for the spiritual understanding and the larger view of God and man's relationship to Him, gained through strict obedience to the study and application of Christian Science, for I now enjoy good health, which I had never known before.

Words fail to express my love for and appreciation of Mary Baker Eddy for giving us the textbook, whereby all may come and drink "of the water of life freely." I wish to express heartfelt gratitude to the kind practitioners who aided in my journey Spiritward; for peace, joy, contentment, and a great happiness have come into my life. I am also grateful to be a member of The Mother Church and of a local branch church in which I am an active worker, and for class instruction. I hope to express my sincerity to the Christian Science movement by loyalty and love for all mankind.—(Mrs.) Alberta M. Edgar, Los Angeles, California.

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