Testimony of Healing September 30, 1961 Issue

I had been left without a ray of...

Golde F. McCoy

I had been left without a ray of hope when Christian Science was presented to me. I had consumption of the lungs, and after giving me months of medical treatment, two doctors said that they could do no more for me. They recommended a change of climate, and I was invited by an aunt to visit her in a city in southern Georgia.

After several weeks, there was no improvement in my condition. My aunt, though not a Christian Scientist, invited me to go to a Christian Science Reading Room with her to meet the librarian. I protested to her that I did not want anything to do with what I then thought was a fanatical religion. Later, however, I decided to go to please her because she had been so kind to me. Firmly I held to this thought, "They cannot talk me into Christian Science."

The wise librarian, discerning my opposition, did not speak of Science. Instead she talked of the many things of interest going on in the city. I sat in silence, maintaining a stubborn resistance toward her religion. Suddenly I became aware that she had one of the sweetest, happiest smiles I had ever seen. It was wholly sincere, and I wondered if it could be Christian Science that made her so happy.

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