Testimony of Healing June 21, 1947 Issue

As a very young child, I first...

Doris Hartley

As a very young child, I first came in contact with Christian Science while visiting on a farm in Michigan. It was harvest time, and while jumping about in the haystack I landed on the end of my spine on the hard ground. The farm hands felt some concern about the fall, but I managed to get to the house, where loving consolation was given. A member of the family brought out the Bible and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. Not fully realizing what was being done, but feeling a great sense of peace and comfort, I shortly forgot my fall, arose, and went back to my play.

Years went by, and after graduating from college I again came in contact with Christian Science. During a week-end visit with a classmate I was most impressed with the joy, peace, and harmony expressed in her home. I commented upon this to my hostess. She accepted this comment in the quiet, loving, humble manner of all those who are sincerely striving to follow in the footsteps of Truth. I later learned that I had been visiting in the home of a consecrated Christian Science practitioner.

These two incidents are important in my testimony of sincere gratitude for Christian Science, because they are two of the many present-day illustrations of the truth mentioned in Paul's second epistle to the Corinthians (3:2, 3), "Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart." They show how important it is that we so let our light shine that others may see it and be guided along their journey from sense to Soul.

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