Testimony of Healing July 9, 1949 Issue

Invalid healed by reading becomes self-supporting

Abbie L. Holliday

When Christian Science was first brought to my attention, it was for physical healing that I paused and listened, hoping for some way out of the distress I had suffered for many months. For over a year I had been unable to walk without heavy braces on my feet and had had to wear smoked glasses whenever I went out of doors. I had just had another severe sick spell and was unable to leave my bed. I was away from home with a relative who was just beginning to be interested in Christian Science. When she went to work in the morning, she left me the Christian Science Quarterly, the Bible, and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy and asked me if I did not want to look this literature over during the day. I told her that I had not been able to read for more than a few minutes at a time for over a year, but that I might look at it a little while she was gone.

Soon after she left, I took up Science and Health. When my lunch was brought to me at noon, I was still reading. I had started with the chapter on Prayer and had spent the whole morning reading. This chapter had so illumined my understanding of what prayer really is that for the first time in many years I was able to pray with some faith that my prayer would be answered. The definition of God in the Glossary (p. 587) had arrested my attention, and I memorized it and could now see how man could really be the image and likeness of God.

I continued to read all day, and when my sister returned in the evening I was up and dressed. We went out for dinner and attended a show in the evening, though I was more interested in getting back to my reading than I was in the evening's entertainment. Ten days later, when I returned home, a three days' trip, I had discarded my braces and every bottle of medicine which I had been earning around with me and upon which I had thought my security and safety depended.

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