Testimony of Healing March 22, 1947 Issue

I should like to express my...

Oliver S. Nolan with contributions from Thelma J. Nolan

I should like to express my gratitude for Christian Science. Like many men I had drifted far from religion, taking up drinking, smoking, and other so-called manly practices. After four years of married life filled with quarrels, misunderstandings, and unhappiness, my wife and f by mutual consent, decided that it would lie best if we parted. It was agreed that she would live with an aunt in a distant city. Just before my wife's departure, the aunt, who knew a little about Christian Science, suggested that we study this Science, which we readily agreed to do.

I commenced to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, starting with the chapter on Prayer, and found that I had even forgotten the Lord's Prayer, which I had learned as a boy in an orthodox Sunday School. After reading about one hundred pages. I thought this was surely the craziest thing I had ever heard of and discarded the book.

Some three days later upon retiring I had trouble getting to sleep and when I did, was awakened by terrible dreams. About two o'clock in the morning I remembered something my wife's aunt had told me, namely, that regardless of what the difficulty might be, Science could help if I called a practitioner. This I did, and she dealt kindly and patiently with my troubles and questions despite the unreasonable hour, inviting me to call at her office the next evening. I spent almost three hours in her office, asking many questions and receiving logical, satisfying answers. If ever there was a doubting Thomas. I was one. Upon leaving I asked her if she would help me in Christian Science, and she agreed to do so.

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