Testimony of Healing August 3, 1946 Issue

Christian Science was first mentioned...

Grace Ferguson Reid

Christian Science was first mentioned to me when an aunt, who had just begun its study, remarked that I should look into it for there was nothing else like it. I brushed her advice aside, thinking that this Science was just some ism.

Seven years later Christian Science came into my experience to stay when I was invited to serve as a musician in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. After serving a few weeks I bought the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and the Christian Science Quarterly. Some months passed before I began to study, however, for I questioned whether it was the truth. I was teaching a large Sunday School class in one of the Protestant churches, and was reluctant to give up the class and brave the publicity of my action until I was sure Science was what I was looking for. I am grateful that at the time doctors declared me in need of a physical healing, for it spurred me on to determine whether or not Christian Science is true. My answer came in an unexpected and convincing manner.

I was with a group of friends, none of whom was a Christian Scientist, on a fishing trip in the mountains of New Mexico. One morning we left very early, riding pack horses to Lake Catherine, a distance of six and a half miles from our camp near Cowles, and planned to ride back that afternoon and evening. On the trip to the lake my horse scraped my right leg against a tree. I am mentioning this incident to emphasize the significance of another one that happened later that day. We started back to the camp in the afternoon. I became frightened at the sharp turns the horses were forced to make on the hairpin curves, and a panicky foreboding of an accident took possession of my consciousness. I did not believe anything would happen to me, but I began to pray silently for everyone else in the group in the best way I knew how.

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