Testimony of Healing June 4, 1955 Issue

A friend said to me, "You can...

Alene M. Reynolds

A friend said to me, "You can be a Christian Scientist now, because you have good health; but if anything ever went wrong with you, you would have to go to a doctor." A healing I had experienced a few days previously disproved this assertion.

At noon one Saturday I felt a bit of pain and weakness in one hip. The discomfort was so slight that I gave it an opportunity to develop by ignoring it, instead of instantly denying it with the truth of being. By night I was in extreme pain and could get around only by holding to one piece of furniture after another. By then I was roused and gave myself a Christian Science treatment. After a night of misery, however, I knew I had to have help. At five o'clock the following morning, Sunday, I asked a Christian Science practitioner for treatment, pointing out that I wanted to go to work the next morning. I feared that the condition, whatever it was, might be so serious that the longer it was allowed to continue, the harder it would be to overcome. Also I felt that the fewer the people who knew of it and worried about it, the better. Hence my great desire to go to work the next day.

I spent Sunday in bed reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, getting up with difficulty only for dinner. That night the practitioner came into my bedroom and said: "You have read Science and Health all day. Now rest in the arms of divine Love." I obeyed and had a good night's rest. At five o'clock the next morning I read the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. Then I had breakfast and went to work, almost entirely healed. By noon the healing was complete.

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