Testimony of Healing September 13, 1941 Issue

After many years of having the inexpressible comfort...

Leelah C. Hart

After many years of having the inexpressible comfort and good that Christian Science brings to men, I wish to send in a written testimony as to its efficacy in alleviating and healing every sort of erroneous condition to which I have applied it. I should not know where to begin, if I tried to enumerate all the benefits Christian Science has conferred upon me.

I purchased and began to read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, more out of curiosity than from any other motive. I had visited my husband's relatives, who always seemed to be joyful and happy in spite of tribulations. I could not understand their hopeful attitude about the future at a time when they seemed to have little of the world's goods, but in listening to them I often heard them speak of Christian Science, and was told that they were students of this religion. All this caused me to desire to read the book of which they spoke.

I had not been reading the textbook long before a testing time came to me. In alighting from a streetcar, I fell, with my foot twisted under me in such a way that my whole weight was upon it. The pain was excruciating, and as I was helped to the sidewalk by kind passers-by I was almost fainting. However, I leaned against a building and refused further assistance, because I expected my husband with the car in a few moments. I thanked the men who had helped me, and they went on their way. As soon as I was alone, I began to say over and over, "There is no accident in Mind," and also, "I am God's child; nothing but good can come to me." I made these two statements many times, trying to understand them. In about ten minutes my husband drove up, and I walked out to the car almost free from pain. I kept on silently making declarations of the truths which I had learned in my short time of reading, confident that if Christian Science was the truth I would prove it then. I did prove it, and since that time I have never had the least temptation to turn to any other agency for help. The next morning there was not the faintest vestige of error. No swelling or discoloration had appeared at any time. The same thing had occurred to me before, and I had been unable to put my foot to the floor for three weeks. I was very happy over this healing, because it proved to me conclusively that I had found the key to Life.

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