Testimony of Healing January 7, 1956 Issue

Christian Science has been my...

Bertha Byrd

Christian Science has been my only remedy for forty years. I am deeply grateful for our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, and for Mrs. Eddy's unselfed labors in giving us her writings and the Christian Science periodicals. Also I am grateful for the loving help of friends and relatives. In a family of four children we have had many healings. A few of the difficulties healed were scarlet fever, ptomaine poisoning, and the aftereffects of influenza.

When faced with a problem of pests, I studied the paragraph on page 514 of Science and Health in which Mrs. Eddy writes, "All of God's creatures, moving in the harmony of Science, are harmless, useful, indestructible." Also I studied the twenty-sixth verse of the first chapter of Genesis and a number of articles in our literature. As a result, many so-called laws concerning plants, animals, and birds were broken. When I read what our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, says about serpents on page 515 of Science and Health, my aversion to snakes was overcome.

One day two others and I went for a hike in the country. As I crossed a fence I stepped into a nest of yellow jackets. Instantly they swarmed over me, and I was stung many times. My sister used the statement from Science and Health (p. 393), "Have no fear that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law of any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have no pain nor inflammation." In addition, I kept knowing the truth about the situation. There was no swelling or redness, and the only aftereffect was a burning sensation the next morning followed by an itching sensation which lasted awhile and then left. For the protection I had in this experience, I am indeed grateful.

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