Testimony of Healing July 22, 1961 Issue

On page 231 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

Alice Wakeford with contributions from Albert E. Wakeford

On page 231 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we read, "What God cannot do, man need not attempt." This was one of two statements which raised my thinking and completely changed my whole life when I was reading the textbook for the first time. It is with a deep feeling of gratitude for the healing power of Christian Science that I should like to share what took place when this great truth was presented to me at the end of the Second World War.

My husband, returning from Germany, said that he had found some books on Christian Science and that he thought this could be what we were looking for. Not being so optimistic myself, I said that I too had been told about the religion, but I did not think it was for us. At that time I was in a depressed state. I had been to a hospital to see if the cause of the epilepsy I had had for about two years could be traced, but the doctors could do very little for me.

In spite of my doubts, my husband and I then started to read the textbook, which a friend had kindly borrowed for us from a Christian Science Reading Room. I read the chapter on Prayer, which includes these words (p. 13): "If we pray to God as a corporeal person, this will prevent us from relinquishing the human doubts and fears which attend such a belief, and so we cannot grasp the wonders wrought by infinite, incorporeal Love, to whom all things are possible."

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