Testimony of Healing March 3, 1945 Issue

In the year 1911 I became interested...

Alice A. Church

In the year 1911 I became interested in Christian Science. We had moved from a small town in Vermont to a city where we met some neighbors who were Christian Scientists and who asked us to go to church with them. I agreed to go because I had a longing to know more about God. I left the church feeling I had spent that hour in the presence of the God I had always searched for. So we started to study the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

One morning, after reading the Lesson Sermon. I got up to walk, and a pain caught me in my side, something I had experienced off and on for years. My first thought was that I should be incapacitated for some weeks. Then I thought, If Christian Science is good for anything, it can heal me. The first verse of the twenty third Psalm came to me and I repeated it: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." I asked myself what it was that I should not want, and realized that it was healing—I did not need to want to be healed, for man includes perfection. The pain left me and has never returned.

At one time my eyes were in such a condition I could read for only a few minutes at a time. In our textbook (p. 586) I found the following statement: "Eyes. Spiritual discernment,—not material but mental." Soon I was able to read all I wanted to, for I found out that sight is spiritual and does not depend on material eyes. I have enjoyed good sight ever since.

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