Testimony of Healing February 13, 1937 Issue

When Christian Science found me about ten years ago,...

Jennie Mae Reed

When Christian Science found me about ten years ago, I was a semi-invalid suffering from a number of ills of the flesh. After reading the chapter on Prayer from our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I was healed of insomnia. I slept soundly all night, whereas ordinarily I awoke fifteen or twenty times during the night. This was convincing proof to me that Christian Science was all there was for me and all I wanted, for I had had my share of materia medica without any results whatsoever. I became a devout student from then on, and one by one the seeming shackles of extreme nervousness, chronic appendicitis, and kidney disease in one of its worst stages fell away. I have also experienced a healing of fallen arches. This healing was instantaneous, as soon as I got in touch with a practitioner. When having shoes fitted since, I have been told that I have an unusually strong arch.

Before coming into Christian Science I had always been subject to severe colds periodically. Once, when such a condition presented itself, I audibly declared, "The Lord God omnipotent reigneth, and matter has no power," over and over again. Immediately all symptoms vanished, leaving no trace of a cold.

Our two children have made some beautiful demonstrations, both with and without a practitioner's help. Our little daughter had a good-sized wart on her hand, to which neither she nor I had given any special attention or thought, as it did not bother her in any way. However, her father, who is not a student of Christian Science, mentioned the fact that he was going to take her to the doctor and have it burned off. When her father left the room I said to her: "It is time for us to get busy. We have been asleep long enough." I did my work and she worked too, as we are taught in Christian Science. I dismissed the condition from my thought, as I felt that it was met. In about two weeks she came running to me to tell me that the wart was gone. When the opportunity presented itself, she told her father, and he was overjoyed as well as astonished.

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