Testimony of Healing April 7, 1956 Issue

Christian Science was presented...

Ada Austin James

Christian Science was presented to me more than twenty-four years ago by a student of this Science who worked in the same office with me and who invited me to a Wednesday testimony meeting in a Church of Christ. Scientist. I had heard of Science through relatives and friends who were interested in it and who had derived many benefits from its teachings. Therefore I was grateful to accept this invitation with an open mind, for I was seeking a more practical religion to help me to better understand God and my relationship to Him.

The crowded church convinced me that Christian Science must have something to attract so large a congregation of intelligent people. Some of the hymns were familiar to me, the readings from the desk were inspiring, and the testimonies were given with a sincerity that turned my thoughts to God and made me realize how much I needed love and humility.

After the meeting my friend took me to a Reading Room, where he purchased and gave me as a gift the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and a Christian Science Quarterly. He then explained to me how to study the Bible Lessons. I began to study at once, and I am grateful to say I advanced spiritually from the very beginning, for I was hungering and thirsting after righteousness. In due time I became a member of a branch church, where I served on various committees, taught in the Sunday School, served as soloist, and later was Second Reader for three spiritually fruitful years.

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