Testimony of Healing October 2, 1943 Issue

From the first words I heard...

Daisy Cynthia Wood

From the first words I heard about Christian Science when it was presented to me I knew it was the truth which I had always been seeking. I had no creed. I believed in a God who was good, but had no idea of how to make my faith tangible and practical. My introduction to Christian Science came when the wonderful chapter on Prayer by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" was read to me. I exclaimed frequently, "Why, that is what I have always believed, but no one has ever put it into words before."

Mrs. Eddy's writings, which I began to read with avidity, turned me, with inspired awakening, to the study of the Bible, which I had never read.

Before my new birth in Christian Science I had been in a runaway accident and was so severely cut about the face and neck that physicians who took stitches and attended me predicted I would be disfigured for life. A young girl, with high aspirations for a public career, I felt that this was the cruelest blow I could receive. I would not accept it. I refused to accept any argument that a good God could so afflict one who was merely a victim of an unfortunate experience. So I consciously denied the medical verdict and clung steadfastly to faith in a good supreme power, and the injury and scars began to disappear. The physician asked what other doctor I was having. I simply said to him: "I refuse to accept what you tell me. I believe in a good God and He would not so afflict me."

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