Testimony of Healing October 7, 1939 Issue

For many years I have tried to live in accord with the...

Annabelle Hadley

For many years I have tried to live in accord with the truth that makes free, as exemplified by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. My first acquaintance with this demonstrable religion was in the spring of 1915, when I picked up a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy in a public library, and read enough of the first chapter to realize that I did not know how to pray. Yet all my life I had thought that I did, and had wondered why my prayers were not answered. I borrowed the book, and began the study of Christian Science. At the end of one month a difficult financial problem had been solved, and eyeglasses which had been worn since childhood were discarded.

One of the many physical healings I have experienced occurred about a year after my introduction to Science, while I was located temporarily in a Southern city. I found myself, late one evening, very ill, and telephoned to a practitioner for help. My studio apartment occupied a portion of a large private school, and I managed to call in a student the next morning, when I found it impossible to get up. When the practitioner arrived she found me delirious. This state was followed by unconsciousness. At this point the wife of the principal of the school declared that no one could die there without a doctor. Accordingly, she called a physician. He stated that it was a case of double pneumonia, too far advanced to treat, adding, "The patient will not regain consciousness." As he left the room the faithful practitioner returned. An hour later, after I had been in a coma for over four hours, my countenance changed, and I responded to my name.

The second day afterward, I was teaching in my studio, showing no evidence of error. This demonstration proved to the entire household the healing power of Christian Science.

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