Testimony of Healing July 11, 1970 Issue

My interest in Christian Science began many years ago

Flora I. Owen

My interest in Christian Science began many years ago. As a very young girl I had gone to many different Sunday Schools, but somehow none had appealed to me until one Sunday morning I walked into a Christian Science Sunday School. All my family were members of other churches, and my desire to attend a Christian Science Sunday School was not greeted too enthusiastically. However, my mother agreed that if this one satisfied me she saw no harm in my attending it. So I was allowed to purchase the textbook, Science and Health, and the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy. My mother had previously given me a Bible.

Shortly thereafter I experienced my first healing. Upon visiting our local dentist I was told I had a very severe case of pyorrhea. He said that by the time I became twenty there was no doubt I would have lost all my teeth. This alarmed me very much, but having heard of man's spiritual nature in the Christian Science Sunday School, I felt this must be a lie about myself. The Sunday School teacher had explained that since God had created man in His image, man expresses perfection. Also I had read Mrs. Eddy's answer to the question, "What is man?" in Science and Health on page 475, where she says: "Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements. The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God." The condition the dentist described was not God's likeness.

I asked my mother if she would permit me to visit a person called a practitioner and ask for help through prayer. My mother gave her permission. I remember how kind the practitioner was. She talked a great deal about God and my relationship to Him. She guided my thought away from self, and when I left her home, I felt that during the interview I had gained a glimpse of God's presence. It is what I would call an instantaneous healing. The next morning not only the tooth condition but warts that had covered one hand (for which I had tried many remedies to no avail) had completely disappeared.

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