Testimony of Healing April 19, 1952 Issue

Christian Science was first...

S. Lanier McNally with contributions from Ben S. L. McNally, Lucille M. Chapman

Christian Science was first brought to my attention in 1917 by a man whom my husband and I met in a large midwestern city, where we were filling a vaudeville engagement. This man was a Christian Scientist, and we were impressed by his unusual viewpoint on religion, I was suffering from a severe cold, and although I listened with interest to what he said. I did not entirely understand how I could be healed in Christian Science.

By the time we arrived at our next destination, several days later, I was in great pain. As I sat rather sorrowfully backstage, waiting for my husband to attend to necessary business, a woman came out of her dressing room. She stopped and asked me if she could be of assistance. I thanked her and said that I did not think so. I told her that I had not slept for several nights and that I was not able to lie down. She lovingly assured me that Christian Science would help me and at my request treated me metaphysically. I was healed in that one treatment.

It was not until some time later that I really began to study this Science. I found much comfort in reading the literature and tried to apply in my daily work what little I did understand of its truths. I was awakened one night with a chill, and later a high fever developed. At the time I was to leave my room for the theater I could hardly stand up, so I was carried to a taxi and, on arriving at the theater, into my dressing room. A Christian Science practitioner was called. Friends helped me into my costume, and the practitioner arrived a few minutes before I was to go on the stage. I played my part as usual, and the other members of our act never knew of my illness. I shall never forget or cease to be grateful for the instantaneous healing which took place that afternoon.

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