Testimony of Healing July 21, 1945 Issue

In a copy of the Christian Science Sentinel...

Rosanna Woodard

In a copy of the Christian Science Sentinel some time ago, an account of one who came to the Christian Science Reading Room for the first time in search of a way out of human misery contained the phrase, "a human life in ruins." The words are an apt description of my condition when I first went to a Reading Room seeking help, for I, too, was struggling with poverty, cynicism, unemployment, despair, responsibilities I had no way of meeting, an illness the doctors had called incurable, and a deep weariness with human existence. A home and a job, with strength enough to do the work it required, came to me almost before I knew enough to give the credit for them to my regular visits to the Reading Room.

I was still taking medicines which were supposed to alleviate some of the symptoms from which I suffered, when one day I read in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 63), "You would never think that flannel was better for warding off pulmonary disease than the controlling Mind, if you understood the Science of being." I had been intending to leave the Reading Room early in order to have one of the prescriptions filled on my way back to the office, but I saw that depending on the medicine bottle in my purse was just as illogical as depending on flannel. I stayed at the Reading Room and studied instead of going to the drug store, and took no more drugs or medicines. People started remarking how well I looked, and I was, in fact, feeling so strong and well that I had to admit I was healed of the "incurable" organic ailment. Like the people whom I had heard of and laughed at, I had been healed by reading Science and Health.

Several months later my son was instantaneously healed of measles when, for the first time, I asked for a practitioner's help.

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