Testimony of Healing June 13, 1964 Issue

It is over thirty-six years since...

Phyllis M. Bristowe

It is over thirty-six years since I first commenced the study of Christian Science. As a child and as a young girl I was constantly searching for the truth, which I could not find in conventional religion. Then, when I was a young married woman, my baby son, aged three months, was given up by the doctors, who kindly informed me that they could do no more for him. I had been unable to nurse him, and he was apparently unable to retain any nourishment at all. He cried all night and most of the day.

My mother recommended that I try Christian Science, of which she had commenced the study two years earlier; but at first I would not hear of it. Finally, in desperation, feeling that since this was the last possible hope, I should fail in my duty as a parent if I did not try it, I very grudgingly asked what I had to do.

My mother gave me a copy of the Quarterly, lent me a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and explained how to study the Lesson-Sermon, given in the Quarterly. She asked me to read the lesson aloud daily to the baby. This seemed to be such a ridiculous request that I even then delayed doing what she asked.

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