Testimony of Healing July 19, 1958 Issue

He brought me up also out of...

Emily G. Thorneycroft

"He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings" (Ps. 40:2). These were the words which arrested my attention at my first visit to a Wednesday testimony meeting in a Church of Christ, Scientist, to which I had been taken by a dear friend. On the way home I pondered the above words and wondered if Christian Science were the rock of Truth, for which I longed. During the past thirty years it has indeed proved to be so.

Shortly before this introduction to Christian Science, I had prayed most earnestly to God, asking Him to show me the right way to live. At that time I was going to a hospital twice a week for treatment, and my two small children were almost always ill. This, I felt, could not be the will of a loving God.

After the testimony meeting, I borrowed the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. When I read the chapter on Prayer, I knew I had found that for which I had yearned since childhood. In a short while I was able to purchase the textbook, and then with the Bible and the Christian Science Quarterly I began to study the weekly Lesson-Sermon. What a new view of God, man, and life it gave to me! For the light which Christian Science has thrown upon the Bible, I shall never cease to be grateful.

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