Testimony of Healing June 24, 1996 Issue

When Christian Science was presented to me forty years ago, it...

Margaret C. Poyser

When Christian Science was presented to me forty years ago, it opened up a whole new way of life for me—a life of dedication to the Science of Christ, which our Master taught and practiced. It has brought many blessings, healings, and spiritual growth, not only to me, but to my family.

I had been reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy only a few months when I had an opportunity to see for myself how Christian Science heals. I noticed that one of my fingers was becoming progressively inflamed and painful. One day I was in our yard, and our next-door neighbor, a medical doctor, came over to chat. He noticed my hand, took hold of it to look more closely, and said: "This looks very bad. You should have something done about this. You will probably lose the nail, and it will not grow back again."

I called a Christian Science practitioner for treatment through prayer. Several weeks went by, and it seemed as though there was no improvement. Hungering for the truths that Christian Science teaches, however, I used every spare moment to read Mrs. Eddy's writings. One day I took a copy of her Prose Works with me to read during my lunch hour at work. As I read from Unity of Good, I came across a paragraph that stood out to me as if it were in bold relief: "To deny the existence or reality of matter, and yet admit the reality of moral evil, sin, or to say that the divine Mind is conscious of evil, yet is not conscious of matter, is erroneous. This error stultifies the logic of divine Science, and must interfere with its practical demonstration" (p. 36).

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