Testimony of Healing March 23, 1957 Issue

Mary Baker Eddy writes in...

Edna J. Schiffel

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 9), "The spiritual power of a scientific, right thought, without a direct effort, an audible or even a mental argument, has oftentimes healed inveterate diseases." This truth was proved to me in my first healing in Christian Science.

My sister had asked me if I would accompany her to a service in a Christian Science church. I went reluctantly, for I was satisfied with the church that I then attended. We went to Wednesday evening testimony meetings a few times over a period of about two months. Then suddenly I became ill with scarlet fever, complicated by kidney trouble. The kidney trouble was a return of a condition from which I had suffered as a young girl, and the doctor considered it serious.

During the period of quarantine my sister kept me supplied with copies of the Sentinel and of The Christian Science Monitor. One day after reading some of these, I sat up in bed and declared, "Well, if there is any truth in this Christian Science, I do not have to have these difficulties." Right after this all trouble abated, and when some time later the doctor made another examination, he was surprised to find the conditions entirely gone. Even then I did not realize that I had had a complete healing through this simple statement. I had to grow in my understanding of what Christian Science is, before its efficacy dawned upon me.

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