Testimony of Healing December 31, 1966 Issue

For the first few years of my married life my husband was not...

Mildred E. Ackley

For the first few years of my married life my husband was not interested in Christian Science, nor was I. But that "man's extremity is God's opportunity" was proved after my husband had an operation for hemorrhoids. Extreme pain and a nervous condition affecting his skin followed, and the doctors could give him no relief.

My sister, a Christian Scientist, was visiting us and recommended to my husband that he try Christian Science. In no uncertain terms she was told what we both thought of such a method of healing. But the seed of Truth was sown, and sometime later my husband visited a practitioner. This was without my knowledge, and when he returned home one afternoon, smiling and with a clear skin, I accused him of seeing a practitioner, even though I didn't know what the word "practitioner" meant. When questioned, he said he had been told to read a book called "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. He opened the book to page 283 where Mrs. Eddy says, "Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action." The healing had been instantaneous.

The following week we attended a Church of Christ, Scientist, and enrolled our daughter in Sunday School. This was over thirty years ago, and was the beginning of the family's reliance on Christian Science for healing.

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