A deep sense of gratitude for what Christian Science has...

Zelda A. Frazier

A deep sense of gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me impels me to give this testimony. Christian Science came to me at a time when I was in dire need, and healed me of deep grief after an only child had passed on. For a long time I suffered such intense grief that it seemed as though I would lose my reason; and besides this, I was in a serious physical condition. A few weeks after my child passed on I underwent a surgical operation, which seemed to leave me in a much worse condition than before. Then Christian Science came to me, and I was willing to give it a trial.

I purchased a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and the Christian Science Quarterly; studied the Lesson-Sermon everyday; read all the authorized literature that I could get; and obediently did everything that I was told to do. During those first few months I did not get the healing which I sought, the healing of that from which I seemed to suffer most. I did not get that until I wanted to know and to understand God more than I wanted physical healing; but I did have many other healings, and at the end of that time had no desire to turn to anything else for help.

I have had a great many physical healings, among them the overcoming of extreme nervous exhaustion, neuritis, insomnia, and a spinal trouble from which I had suffered a great many years. During the first few weeks after turning to Christian Science I was completely healed of a chronic bowel trouble from which I had suffered all my life, and which at times had given me serious trouble. During that period I was also healed of astigmatism, for which I had worn glasses for ten years. I had been told by three prominent specialists that I would always have to wear them, but I have not felt the need of them since my healing, nearly fifteen years ago. I have been healed of influenza, coughs, colds, the grippe, a chronic tendency to sore throat, and weak lungs.

I have been healed of chronic backache, pains in my limbs, headache, nausea, inflammation of the bladder, and a tendency to a cankered mouth. Through the earnest work of a practitioner I was healed instantaneously of ptomaine poisoning. Two large warts on my fingers disappeared through the application of my understanding of Christian Science. I have been quickly, sometimes instantaneously, healed of cuts, burns, bruises, sprains, and so forth. All these conditions have been entirely overcome through Christian Science. I have not employed a doctor or used material remedies in any form since the day I turned to Christian Science.

I am very grateful for the faithful, loving help of practitioners when the way seemed so dark and long. While deeply grateful for the many physical healings, I am still more grateful for the demonstrable understanding of God which I have gained through the study of Christian Science, for the spiritual uplift, and for the sense of peace and happiness that it has brought into my life.

I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church, as well as for membership in one of its branches. I am deeply and increasingly grateful for having had the blessed privilege of class instruction under a loyal teacher. Christian Science has changed me from a sick, unhappy, discouraged woman to a healthy, happy, active one, so that for several years I have led a normal and unusually active life.

(Mrs.) Zelda A. Frazier, Westfield, New York.

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