About seventeen years ago, I...

Mary Lucile Peterson

About seventeen years ago, I turned to Christian Science for the healing of a crippled foot. A bone specialist had told me that I must walk on crutches for three months, or until my general condition would permit an operation. Instead, with the help of a Christian Science practitioner, I continued my work in the office to which I had just returned after quite a long absence. A new world was revealed to me through the loving work of the practitioner. The healing of the foot was slow, but I received strength for each day's work as the need arose, and experienced many minor healings during this time.

The first Lesson-Sermon in theChristian Science Quarterly which I studied was "Adam and Fallen Man," and the explanations of the real creation and the false one answered many of my questions. I felt I was indeed starting at the beginning. The Lesson-Sermons mean more to me each week, and I am so grateful that Mrs. Eddy was guided to provide them.

The Reading Room was certainly an oasis to me during these first months of study. The office where I worked was close enough to a downtown Reading Room to enable me to spend half of my lunch hour there each day. I am very grateful for the Reading Rooms all over the world and for the loving service rendered by the librarians.

Among recent healings in my family have been those of chicken pox, which was healed in three days, and arthritis, which was healed in two weeks. After we telephoned long-distance to a practitioner, a child that had been delirious most of the night with pneumonia was instantaneously healed. Our six-year-old daughter had a beautiful healing when her arm was caught in a wringer. She was playing with her brother five minutes later, completely free, and there were no marks on the arm. After we had looked for a home for several days during the housing shortage, we asked a practitioner for help and were settled the next day. There have been many other healings, but more important than the physical benefit is the learning of God as the only creator and of man as His expression.

I am indeed grateful for Christian Science and for the wonderful healing and regenerating work it is doing the world over.—(Mrs.) Mary Lucile Peterson, Bainbridge, Indiana.

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