Testimony of Healing February 21, 1959 Issue

When I was a very young girl,...

Mildred S. Ritchie

When I was a very young girl, my mother had a nervous breakdown. After years of medical treatment, she was told of Christian Science by a member of the family who had been healed of an abdominal rupture. She began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and was completely healed just through the reading of this textbook.

It was after my mother's healing that she learned that there was a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, in the city where we were living. I was enrolled in the Christian Science Sunday School and attended until I reached the age of twenty. Several years after I was married I had the opportunity of testing the healing power of this Science.

A severe pain began to develop across the abdomen, and Christian Science treatment was requested. As there seemed to be no relief, my husband and I decided to leave our home in the Middle West and go for the winter to Florida, where I could spend more time in consecrated study of the Bible and of Mrs. Eddy's writings. I also asked for the help of a Christian Science practitioner, but the treatments were to be given only when the pain was so severe I could not think clearly enough to do the work myself.

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