Christian Science was presented to me a little more than forty-six...

Christian Science was presented to me a little more than forty-six years ago. At that time I had had three major operations and was no better. I went to see a famous surgeon. After treating me for some time, giving me tests, taking X rays, and so forth, he said, "Go to the hospital tonight, and I will operate tomorrow." He said I had cancer in its last stages. He could not guarantee anything, even with the operation. The picture was that I certainly could not live to be thirty.

I had heard Christian Science mentioned in the beauty parlor where I had my hair dressed, and the operator gave me the name of a Christian Science practitioner. Although I knew nothing about Christian Science at the time, I telephoned her for an appointment. I went to see her on New Year's Day, 1921. I spent about two hours with the practitioner and walked out of her office healed of cancer. It was an instantaneous healing.

The practitioner asked me what I would do about it if I were healed. I answered, "I would want to know more about what healed me." I did not understand anything about Christian Science. I bought the Bible, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and the Christian Science Quarterly. I read them once in a while and went to church occasionally, but not until five years later did I depend entirely upon Christian Science. During all the years since, it has been my only physician and help in all ways. I have been healed of nervous breakdown, a heart condition, and other ailments, large and small. I know that Christian Science heals all kinds of ills. Nothing is impossible to God, "who healeth all thy diseases" (Ps. 103:3 ).

One time when I was very ill and had been in bed about a month, I was alone, and it seemed that I was passing on. The state of thought I was in was that I did not care. I was having Christian Science treatment. Then the thought came to me strongly, "Rouse ye." I still did not care what happened. Again the impelling direction to my thought was "Rouse ye." When it came the third time, I got out of bed and shook myself. From then on, I was healed. Until this moment all I had wanted to do was sleep. But this awakened me. I took my Christian Science Hymnal and read and reread Hymn No. 296 many times and thanked God. The words include this verse and refrain:

Time and space would not allow me to tell of all the healings and blessings that have come to us through the application of Christian Science.

I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, for the blessed experience of class instruction, and for teaching in the Sunday School for over thirty-five years.

(Mrs.) Florence C. Rich, Topanga, California

I wish to corroborate my wife's testimony. When we were married, I knew that my wife had been helped through Christian Science and that she wanted to depend upon it entirely.

Looking back on my family tree, I did not like what I saw. I particularly liked what Christian Science presented regarding heredity.

Through Christian Science we were led to adopt and raise a son. Later, in gratitude for my wife's healing of a nervous breakdown, and because I recognized that I could use more help in Sunday School teaching, I was led to apply for and receive class instruction from her teacher.

Two years ago I became completely paralyzed. With the support of our teacher and with a Christian Science practitioner helping me, I was greatly improved in three days. After a month I was well and have been in good health ever since.

I am grateful for all the proofs of God's care that we have received and for the confidence and assurance that we need not lose any of our human faculties.