Testimony of Healing May 26, 1973 Issue

In 1910, my parents gave me a Bible on my seventh birthday

Thomas H. R. Rose

In 1910, my parents gave me a Bible on my seventh birthday. I still had it and read it fairly regularly until about twenty years ago. Then one evening, during a discussion on religion with friends, one of them lent me a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. This was the first time I had heard of Christian Science. I am unable to describe with words the joy that came with the understanding of my Bible that Science and Health gave me. I hardly bothered about eating until I had read through this incomparable companion to the Bible.

Perhaps I should mention that Science and Health came to me on the very day I resolved to quit smoking and set a better example to our children. I had tried unsuccessfully before, but as I read and grasped something of my divine nature as a child of God, this, my first healing, was instant and permanent.

Our home and farm was, and still is, two hundred miles from any branch Church of Christ, Scientist. I soon applied for membership and was accepted. I am very grateful for the loving encouragement I received at this time, and for the provision made in the bylaws of the branch church for country members regarding church attendance. I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church. Study of the weekly Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly enables country members to feel they belong, and the periodicals bring inspiration and encouragement in the articles and testimonies.

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