Testimony of Healing February 15, 1941 Issue

It is with a deep sense of gratitude for the many benefits...

A. Geraldine MacWhirter

It is with a deep sense of gratitude for the many benefits received and a desire to help others that I testify to the healing power of Christian Science. During my childhood my mother was stricken with tuberculosis of throat and lungs, and this condition was pronounced incurable by four doctors, three of whom were eminent specialists. She was given only a short time to live unless she left the climate of Ireland. With a view to going abroad she wrote to her brother in New Zealand, and his reply, with a letter from a friend of his who was a Christian Scientist, brought the good news that Christian Science could heal her and told her how to get treatment. She had never heard of this religion and threw the letter aside as absurd, but later decided to give Christian Science a trial. She did not leave Ireland, and after five months' absent treatment she was completely and permanently healed, and her testimony appeared in The Christian Science Journal during 1903. At that time we lived in a country town far from a Christian Science Sunday School, and I took no interest in what my mother tried to teach me.

Years later, during my training as a hospital nurse, I was greatly alarmed on hearing from my mother of symptoms which suggested another serious malady. To satisfy me she submitted to a minor surgical operation, which failed to relieve her, and a year later a major operation was performed. She still continued to suffer after this, and, realizing that medicine could do no more for her, I proposed a return to Christian Science, with the result that she was healed, and this convinced me that Christian Science is the truth.

I began to study the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and accepted its teachings as a beautiful theory, but without a hope of ever being able to put it into practice, until some years later, when I suddenly became acutely ill. Fearing a doctor's diagnosis, I wrote to a Christian Science practitioner, whose name I found in the Journal, for treatment. I was confined to bed for two days, but on the day she received my letter I became immediately well, got up and went to my work as usual. This healing brought with it a great desire to know how it had been accomplished and to try to practice the truth for myself. This was followed by a healing of consumption after two weeks' absent treatment. Subsequently I gained the privilege of membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church and of class instruction. Christian Science also helped me to find employment which partially freed me from my association with materia medica and transferred my home to the vicinity of a branch church, where I have since experienced some of the joys of taking an active part in church work.

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