My first healing has always seemed to me beautiful and...

Minette Benton

My first healing has always seemed to me beautiful and wonderful, because at the time I knew nothing of Christian Science, except that it was a religion which claimed to heal. I had never attended a service and had never read any of the literature, and knew but one Christian Scientist. She was a neighbor whom I admired and respected because of her lovely character.

For eight years I had suffered from insomnia and was constantly taking a drug to induce sleep. Finally, through grief over the passing on of dear ones, and financial difficulties, I was reduced to a state of acute nervous prostration. Nothing the physicians and do brought me any peace; and they finally decided to send me to a sanatorium for an indefinite period.

While I was brooding over this situation, not being able to see how it was possible for me to go away, the thought came to me, They say Christian Science heals! Immediately, I arose from my bed and telephoned the neighbor who I knew was a Christian Scientist. After explaining my troubles to her I asked her if she thought Christian Science could help me. She said, "I do not think, I know it will help you!" I then inquired what I should do, and was told I needed a practitioner. As I knew nothing of how to go about getting this help, I asked her to send one to my home. A practitioner came to see me some hours later, and I shall never forget her loving expression, her compassion and patience, as I poured out to her all my troubles. My one cry was, "Oh, if I could only sleep!" She spoke to me of God's ever-presence and loving care for His children, and said that as I was one of His beloved children He would give me all I needed; and she quoted the Bible statement, "He giveth his beloved sleep." This was a comforting thought to me, and I asked the practitioner to help me. After she left I tried to understand the truth about peace, and while I was wondering about it I fell asleep and slept the whole night through. When I awoke the next morning I was entirely healed.

For more than a year I had not been conscious of the birds, the trees, flowers, or sunshine, and on that wonderful morning the birds were singing, the sun was shining, the trees outside my window were beatiful and green and softly blowing in the breeze. The heavy load was lifted, and I was free. There has never been the least return of any of those conditions.

I am also deeply grateful for many others healings, for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, for the opportunity of serving in the latter, for class instruction, and for all the blessings which have come to me through the study of Christian Science.—(Miss) Minette Benton, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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