Testimony of Healing October 20, 1973 Issue

Christian Science has been my way of life since I was a small...

Mary Katherine Hensley with contributions from Ben M. Hensley

Christian Science has been my way of life since I was a small child, and I am sincerely and deeply thankful for the good it has brought me. I was sent to a Christian Science Sunday School because my aunt had been healed through Science treatment of a very unsightly skin disease after all medical effort to cure her had failed. After this healing. I remember admiring her especially beautiful, clear complexion.

My subsequent Sunday School teaching eventually inspired me, when I was a high school student, and quite on my own, to begin the daily study of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. This consistent study has enhanced my understanding of this wonderful truth. A statement made by Mary Baker Eddy in Miscellaneous Writings characterizes my experience as a student of this religion (p. 213): "Christian Science gives a fearless wing and firm foundation." A normal condition of good health has been natural to me as a result of adhering to the Science I have learned to understand and trust.

However, there have been times when I have been severly tested to "stick to the truth of being in contradistinction to the error that life, substance, or intelligence can be in matter" as Mrs. Eddy puts it in the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 418). A few years ago I was faced with a very serious stoppage of normal bodily functions, accompanied by almost constant pain. I turned to the two textbooks, the Bible and Science and Health, and to Mrs. Eddy's other writings for spiritual sustenance and the right ideas which would solve this problem. There was a struggle with fear and discouragement when I didn't get immediate relief or even some improvement, but I continued to study, work, and pray, and called upon a Christian Science practitioner for treatment.