Testimony of Healing November 6, 1978 Issue

After a frail and sickly childhood that left me wondering if my...

Leola C. Lowery with contributions from Maralyn L. Holley

After a frail and sickly childhood that left me wondering if my needs could be met by medical means, my brother told me about Christian Science. During secondary school he was going with a girl whose family were Christian Scientists. He would come home from a date with her and talk enthusiastically and at length about these teachings. I sat quietly and listened but was at first prejudiced because of what some well-meaning but misguided people had said about this religion.

Since I had given up using medical means, I started an investigation by reading the Sentinels. I found what I read deeply satisfying. This led me to the study of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. After reading the book and beginning the daily study of the Bible Lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly, I began to realize that Christian Science was the truth for which I had been searching. Since then I have never wavered from total reliance on Science. As the Psalmist puts it (Ps. 84:2), "My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God."

Sometime during my introduction to Christian Science I was healed of chronic constipation I had had for as long as I could remember. The healing came about so effortlessly that at first I didn't realize I had been healed. Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. xi), "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation." I was healed of physical frailty just as naturally.

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