Testimony of Healing May 8, 1976 Issue

My first healing in Christian Science came about in the following...

Gertrude R. Eley

My first healing in Christian Science came about in the following manner. I was under a doctor's care for lung trouble. I had reached the point where I was able to do very little work, only the simplest household duties. We lived in an apartment, and when the tenant across from us saw my condition, she asked if I had ever thought of trying Christian Science. Frankly, I had no idea what Christian Science was, and I was very skeptical of it, but she persisted in telling me more each time I saw her.

In the next few weeks there was to be a Christian Science lecture in the city, and she invited my husband and me to go with her. I did not feel strong enough and declined the invitation, but my husband went and came home with a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.

I began reading. At first it seemed abstract to me, but I kept on, a little each day, and finally I came to this statement (p. 361): "As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God and man, Father and son, are one in being." Here was something I understood in a small measure. I pondered it for several days and then made up my mind to seek out a Christian Science practitioner. I didn't tell my husband or my friend, but went to one listed in our city who was farthest from my neighborhood, hoping that I would not see anyone I knew.

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