Testimony of Healing January 25, 1964 Issue

My first contact with Christian Science...

Dorothy Girton Peterson

My first contact with Christian Science was made when I was in my early teens and my mother was healed of constipation of many years' standing. She was at a practitioner's home for lunch one day when a certain kind of pie was served. Mother remarked that she was unable to eat anything of that nature, but the practitioner told her that the pie actually had no power to harm her. Mother did eat it, there were no ill effects, and the difficulty disappeared completely.

In later years I grew away from Christian Science and eventually found myself having medical treatment for a form of neuralgia. But since I gained no permanent relief I stopped consulting doctors and did nothing. However, one Saturday night I awoke in much pain. I did not want to disturb anyone, so I decided I would wait until morning when my sister, a Christian Scientist, would call at my apartment on her way to church as she did each Sunday. I would then ask her to telephone a practitioner for me.

When she came I told her of the difficulty. She asked me to whom I wanted her to telephone; and after some deliberation I gave her a name, and she dialed the number. When the practitioner was on the line I talked to her and asked her to give me treatment. Then I went into the living room and lay down on the davenport, pondering the words to which she had referred me. These are in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy and read (p. 113), "There is no pain in Truth, and no truth in pain; no nerve in Mind, and no mind in nerve."

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