Testimony of Healing May 27, 1939 Issue

My attention was first drawn to Christian Science in...

William Holder

My attention was first drawn to Christian Science in the year 1898, through my efforts to help a friend who had been forced to give up business because of ill-health. When I called to see him one day at his home I was told that the doctors had given him only a few days longer to live. About two weeks later I was very much surprised to meet him on the street, and asked him for an explanation. He told me that there were people in the city who called themselves Christian Scientists, and that he was having treatment from a man known as a Christian Science practitioner, and was getting well again. Soon afterward he went back to work, fully recovered.

About the time this occurred, a young woman in our home was sick, and the doctor in attendance told me he could do nothing more for her. The same practitioner was asked to help the girl, and in a week's time she was well again. A short time later I had word that my sister-in-law, who lived in the country, was sick. I went to see her and learned that three doctors had given her up. She was brought to my home, and in one week was entirely well, through the work of the same practitioner.

All this led me to purchase a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and to study it. I was a member of an othodox church at the time, and was very much interested in church work. After studying Science and Health for a short time I decided I wanted to become a member of a Christian Science church. I resigned from the church of which I was a member, and joined a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and soon afterward became a member, also, of The Mother Church in Boston.

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