Over twenty-seven years ago I...

Ethel Platt

Over twenty-seven years ago I started reading the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, out of curiosity to see what it was all about. I had not read many pages before I knew that I had found a religion which satisfied me and which I had not found in the other churches that I had attended.

During the first two years of my study I was healed through the aid of a practitioner of a most distressing case of eczema, from which I had suffered frequently since early girlhood and which was rapidly approaching the chronic stage. Through the help of the same practitioner I was healed of an attack of gastric influenza. This healing was accomplished in three and one half hours through absent treatment. For those two healings I was very grateful.

About five years ago I was healed of heart trouble. I had help from a practitioner for some weeks, and the healing came quite suddenly during a Sunday morning service. As I heard these words from Psalm 103, "who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases," a sense of God's great goodness came to me, and I knew in that moment I was healed; and I felt very grateful.

When our four sons joined the South African Army in 1940, three of them going away together for training for active service, one line of Hymn No. 66 in the Christian Science Hymnal was a wonderful help to me—an assurance of protection. The line is, "None can beyond Thy omnipresence stray."

As the war years went on, and the telegrams kept coming from the Defence Department saying that one or another of our boys had been injured in battle and was in hospital, I was very grateful to have my Christian Science textbook to turn to and there to study about indestructible, spiritual man. When all four sons met at our home, completely well, in August, 1945—for the first time in five and one half years—my heart felt overflowing with gratitude to God for the wonderful protection which they had experienced.

I am very grateful for the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, which give me an ever-increasing joy and enlightenment, also for The Christian Science Monitor and the other periodicals, and for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church. Above all I am grateful to God for Christian Science, which shows us the way out of our troubles.—(Mrs.) Ethel Platt, Durban, Natal, South Africa.

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