Testimony of Healing March 13, 1948 Issue

My first experience with Christian Science...

Willie V. Hill

My first experience with Christian Science was during the influenza epidemic in 1918. I was critically ill, and we were unable to secure the services of a medical nurse. A friend in another city heard of our need and offered to come and stay with us until I was better. This friend was a Christian Scientist, but we knew nothing of the religion at that time.

The Monday morning she arrived, I had lost my sight. My friend asked me if I would like to have her read to me from the Bible. I said I would, because I had loved the Bible from childhood, although there was little of it that I really understood. She read the ninety-first Psalm and repeated the Lord's Prayer, then left me to rest. By the middle of the afternoon I was much improved, my sight having become normal, and by Thursday of that week I was completely free.

For several years I had been in poor health, and this quick recovery with no aftereffects made an impression on me, and I often wondered about it. It was a good many years before I took up the study of Christian Science. When I began the study, I at once saw what had healed me of influenza several years before, and I was so glad to go to my friend and acknowledge and express my gratitude for the healing.

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