Testimony of Healing April 28, 1951 Issue

I had been sick for several years...

Elizabeth Stone Mitchell

I had been sick for several years with constant colds and a cough, and I was also suffering from phlebitis in one of my legs. One day, when a member of my family was leaving to call on a Christian Science practitioner, I asked her in desperation if she would ask the practitioner to work for me. An hour or two later I found that I was healed. My gratitude was unbounded, and I was joyous and uplifted. I was happy that I was able to be active around the house, for I had not been for some time. I immediately turned to the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, and from then on I read every minute I could salvage from a busy day. After I had been reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy for only two weeks, I was healed of the need of wearing glasses.

The desire for church membership inspired me to overcome the habits of smoking and social drinking. Early in my experience extreme nervous exhaustion was healed when I was roused by the question asked in Science and Health (p. 217), "Do the muscles talk, or do you talk for them?"" These healings encouraged me, and finally my greatest fear, that of attacks of bronchial asthma, was overcome. Freedom and a sense of Love's ever-presence stayed with me from then on. I am very grateful for the faithful practitioner who stood by through all these experiences and for class instruction.

I am grateful to God for our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, and to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for the complete and final revelation of Truth. (Mrs.) Elizabeth Stone Mitchell, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan.

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