Testimony of Healing May 7, 1949 Issue

Lung trouble and abscess overcome in Science

Amy R. Sangar

I first heard of Christian Science in 1917 when I met a young student of this Science who had recently come to live in the village where I was working as the district nurse. During our first meeting I made an unkind criticism of one of the villagers, to which she replied that Christian Science teaches that an imperfect mortal is not the real man. This arrested my attention, and I questioned her. She answered by reading to me from the textbook, Science and Health by our Leader, Mrs. Eddy. She had not been reading to me for long before I asked her to lend me the book.

For some years previously I had been feeling dissatisfied with what I had learned of religion, my father being a stanch believer in Calvinism. I could not accept this doctrine and would read the Bible to find out how he came by such a theory, as well as any book on theology that came my way.

My new friend introduced me to the nearest Christian Science Reading Room and later to the church. I borrowed Science and Health and found it more satisfying than any book I had ever read. The chapter entitled "Physiology" answered some questions I had asked myself when studying that subject as a young hospital probationer, and I desired to learn more of this Science which held out so much promise of healing those cases considered incurable. I bought my own copy of the textbook, continued to borrow other works by Mrs. Eddy, and began to attend church services.

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