Testimony of Healing April 8, 1950 Issue

In the hope that someone may...

A. Bertha Conyngham

In the hope that someone may be helped by my experiences when first coming into Christian Science, I submit the following.

Shortly after commencing this study, I borrowed the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy from a Christian Science Reading Room. I read it through and thought it very exacting in its demands upon members. Later I said to those in my home: "I could never become a member of that Church; its laws are far too exacting. But I shall keep on reading because I find it helpful and beautiful." A few years later I went to the Reading Room and looked through the Church Manual again. I searched for the Rules I had thought so binding, but could not find them. Again and again the leaves were turned, but I have never found what it was that had appeared so exacting; my thought had completely changed. I now see the Manual By-Laws as a guide to right doing and right thinking.

Some time later a festered thumb drained and healed in about a couple of days after treatment had been given by a practitioner. This condition had persisted for some weeks, and I was afraid it would prevent me from doing some work which I had promised to do. I was out on the hillside in the country one day, and suddenly a feeling of joy came over me. On m return to the house I took off the bandage and found the thumb had drained. A letter received from the practitioner a few days later showed that she must have received my letter telling her of this condition and had given the treatment at the time I was on the hillside.

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