Testimony of Healing May 15, 1937 Issue

In Matthew we read, "The people which sat in darkness...

Catherine Andrew

In Matthew we read, "The people which sat in darkness saw great light." About twenty-one years ago, I passed through a very dark experience in my life, with the passing on of a loved one. My sorrow seemed so overwhelming that I lost interest in everything, but as I had a young baby to care for I knew I must carry on. My friends would say to me, by way of comfort, that it was God's will, so I decided that if it was really God's will, then I had had enough of religion. I left the church altogether, and put my Bible at the bottom of my trunk.

Three years later I stayed with a friend who was interested in Christian Science. This friend asked me if I would mind taking a letter to a friend of hers, who I discovered later was a Christian Science practitioner. Although I saw her for only a few minutes, I never forgot that visit. During the next three years I learned that Christian Science would heal sickness, so I decided to go to this practitioner for help with a throat trouble, and I was healed before I left her office.

I did not know that Christian Science was a religion; I thought it was something to use when one was sick, consequently, instead of going to a doctor I would go to the practitioner. During my visits to her I would always tell her about my great sorrow. It was always the same tale of woe, but I shall never forget her great patience and love to me during that experience. Very kindly and lovingly she would say to me that if I would just read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I would receive comfort and peace. But I could not understand how reading a book could possibly make one happy. However, to please this practitioner, I finally bought Science and Health, with the result that I was instantaneously healed; it gave to me the peace "which passeth all understanding."

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