Testimony of Healing December 27, 1969 Issue

During the Second World War, I was suffering from a form of...

Rachel Luxmoore Jones

During the Second World War, I was suffering from a form of anemia that was diagnosed incurable. A relative in Canada wrote assuring me that Christian Science could help me. At this time I was not ready to take her advice, but five years later, feeling very ill and desperate, I decided to act on her suggestion. I went to a Christian Science Reading Room and borrowed Lyman P. Powell's Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait. I was overjoyed with what I read of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and was impelled to find out more about this wonderful religion.

After attending a testimony meeting in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I talked to a practitioner and asked her to help me. She agreed to give me treatment. Later that night I was suddenly aware of strength pouring into me and realized for the first time that healing was possible. I never had another injection, although I had been having them regularly for seven years.

Shortly after this my job took me to India, where I knew no other Christian Scientists. I continued to study alone to the best of my understanding, but fear urged me to keep a supply of pills, which previously I had taken daily, and to resort to them occasionally.

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