Testimony of Healing October 23, 1937 Issue

Christian Science was first brought to my notice thirty-six...

Martha L. Jones with contributions from George Ed. Jones

Christian Science was first brought to my notice thirty-six years ago, when friends brought a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy to my mother's home stating that reading the book might heal my semi-invalid sister. Through reading and explaining its truths to my sister, as best I could, I became intensely interested in Christian Science as a religion for myself. The "scientific statement of being" (ibid., p. 468), which I memorized at that time, proved to be a guardian angel to me many times throughout the years, especially before I took up the regular study. Since then the protecting and healing power of God's loving care for His children has been realized on numerous occasions, through the understanding of and reliance on the truth as taught in the Bible and in Mrs. Eddy's writings.

One day, during the World War, I felt urged to work for protection and was obedient. On my husband's return from working in the shipyards that day, he related that a strange thing had occurred—a red-hot iron had passed through the back of his shirt without harming him. We were indeed grateful for the protection.

Some years ago, during a period of several weeks, verses from the ninety-first Psalm were continually in my thought. One night, I was suddenly overcome. I fell to the floor, conscious of a heavy sense of bodily disorder. My husband called to me and asked what was the matter. I answered, "Error is nothing but nothing, and is nowhere," words which I had learned from one of the little children whom I was teaching in a Christian Science Sunday School. Immediately I was free, and I suffered no ill effects from the experience. My gratitude for God's loving care and protection was again unbounded as the Psalmist's words came to my thought, "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways."

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