Testimony of Healing June 23, 1951 Issue

As there are still many people...

Richard P. Verrall

As there are still many people who seem to find it difficult to give public testimony to the benefits which they have received in Christian Science, it has occurred to me that my experience on this subject might help someone. Among my earliest recollections I can recall how impossible it seemed for me even to read aloud fluently.

When our family was unable to go to church on Sundays because of severe weather, it was a custom in our home for each of the eight children to read alternately one verse of the Bible aloud. When it came of my turn, I always became so self-conscious that I never once succeeded in reading my verse without stumbling over the words and feeling utterly humiliated. My mother told me that as I grew up this difficulty would disappear, but, on the contrary, as the years rolled on I became more than ever convinced that in this respect I seemed hopelessly incurable.

Then, when I learned of Christian Science and received my first copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and was healed of several chronic disorders, including stomach and liver trouble, by just reading the book, my outlook began to change. In those days there were no Wednesday evening testimony meetings such as we have today. Later on, when testimony meetings were instituted and the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy made it plain, under the heading of "Discipline," how important these testimonies are, I came to realize more than ever that the same power that had healed me of my physical ailments could also enable me to overcome my belief that I could not tell of my healing in public.

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