Testimony of Healing January 28, 1939 Issue

I wish to testify to the uplifting, regeneration, and healing...

Martha M. Percival

I wish to testify to the uplifting, regeneration, and healing which have come to me through the earnest study and application of Christian Science as given to the world by Mary Baker Eddy.

Until the age of fourteen, I had attended a Lutheran parochial school, where there was daily Bible reading and catechism study; and my home atmosphere was deeply religious. Therefore, when I first heard of Christian Science, about thirty-five years ago, I thought it was something that had better not be thought about. In the year 1906, while I was in a large city on a business trip, a friend invited me to attend a Wednesday evening testimony meeting at the Christian Science church. I had so much confidence in this friend that I gladly accepted the invitation. I do not remember that I was especially interested in any part of the service except the hymns. I thought them the most beautiful I had ever heard, and one that was sung at that service must have wakened something within me, for I have remembered it through the years.

From this time on, I thought a good deal about Christian Science, and in due course asked for the help of a practitioner. The love and gratitude I feel for this consecrated worker cannot be expressed in words, for she led me patiently step by step; and when I asked questions she was divinely led to answer me in such a way that I wanted to know more and more of God as taught in Christian Science.

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