Testimony of Healing November 30, 1940 Issue

The healing of sickness has always been of interest to...

Isla E. A. Davis

The healing of sickness has always been of interest to me, so I began training for general nursing in a public hospital. Although I was keenly interested in the work and enjoyed being among the patients, I was continually on the sick list myself, so much so that I was forced to give up thought of completing my training in the three-year course which was required. After this experience I realized that medical treatment could be of no use to me, for I had tried many remedies in an endeavor to get well.

I then went to a chiropractor and became much better under this treatment. Then for no apparent reason I began to be ill again. This went on for about three years, and because I began to develop an arthritic condition I went the round of material remedies again, namely, fasting, diets, tonics, adjustments, resting, exercising, and massage, but received no benefit from them.

At this period of miserable despondency, Christian Science was presented to me with the definite assertion that I would be benefited by it. I had read "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy" by Sibyl Wilbur, and this book had impressed me to the extent that if I heard anything detrimental to Christian Science or Mrs. Eddy I always maintained that Mrs. Eddy's life could only have helped people, and that her teachings were more humanitarian than any other religious or philosophical works that I had read. It had apparently never occurred to me that I should be benefited by her teachings.

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