Testimony of Healing August 13, 1949 Issue

Having read with interest the...

Caroline N. Poole

Having read with interest the editorial entitled "The Golden Anniversary of the Sentinel" in the issue of August 28, 1948, I am prompted to write this testimony. It was fifty years ago, in May, 1899, shortly after my first healing in Christian Science, that a testimony of mine appeared in the Sentinel.

Christian Science was presented to me by a former schoolmate. I had scarcely heard the words "Christian Science" and was amazed when my friend told me that it had healed her of dyspepsia. Because I was afflicted with the same difficulty, I went to The Christian Science Publishing Society, which then occupied rooms in a block of houses on Falmouth Street, and purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

I could hardly understand a paragraph of the book and laid it aside. But my condition finally became so severe that I decided to ask for help from a Christian Science practitioner, who proved to be an early student of Mrs. Eddy's. I began immediately to feel the beneficial effects of her treatment, but it was several months before I was completely healed. By this time I was attending the Sunday services in the Original Mother Church, also the testimony meetings, held then on Friday evenings. I rejoiced in my new-found freedom and soon became a member of The Mother Church.

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