Testimony of Healing April 18, 1953 Issue

When Christian Science was first...

Ethel Wade Prowse

When Christian Science was first brought to my notice I was suffering from a severe nervous breakdown, with all its fears and distressing symptoms, including extreme physical weakness. It was only after several stubborn refusals to have anything to do with the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, that I finally opened it and began to read. "If only this is true," I said, "then there is no need for me to suffer so."

I continued reading and applying what I understood each day. The book was continually in my hands, both during the day and during the night hours when I could not sleep. I gained strength rapidly and was soon able to do my normal work. Often I found myself saying to the suggestions which came to me for acceptance, "You don't come from God; I will enter tain only angels," recalling Mrs. Eddy's definition of "angels" in part as "God's thoughts passing to man" (ibid., p. 581). I was completely healed of the nervous condition. Also I became aware that I no longer needed the aid of glasses, although I had been told by eye specialists that I would find them a continual necessity. I have read for many hours daily and have needed no glasses during the past thirty years.

I should like to express my gratitude for all the protection our family has experienced during the years we have studied Christian Science and for the harmonious births of our sons. The painless birth of our fifth son was a particularly outstanding experience. A practitioner could not be reached, so my husband and I held to the inspiring words of "the scientific statement of being" (ibid., p. 468). A nurse was called, and in about half an hour the child was born. For all the help Christian Science has been in the rearing of these children, for the protection of two of them during their wartime service in the armed forces, and for the help two younger sons have experienced during their term of military service, I am inexpressibly grateful.

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