Christian Science has been my only physician for many...

Nellie B. Edwards

Christian Science has been my only physician for many years. I did not turn to it for physical healing, but to meet a need which I found my earlier religious training did not fill. After beginning the study of Christian Science, however, I became aware that nervous headaches, which had troubled me whenever I was in crowds or where there was undue excitement, had entirely disappeared. A sprained condition in the foot, that had interfered with my walking any distance, ceased. A sense of depression was wiped out, and I found myself growing hopeful and more joyous. Later, I was entirely healed of the sense of loss and separation when a member of my family passed on.

Still I had had no very severe physical test, for Christian Science was protecting me and I was expressing better health than ever before. I was active in the church and giving much time to the study of the truth, so was blessed in many ways. My son was a student of Christian Science, and my husband was a faithful attendant at church, trusting entirely to Christian Science for help in problems of health and business.

Then a testing time came. There were hidden errors that needed to be eradicated, and for a long period I worked with the help of a patient practitioner to overcome a fibroid tumor. Finally it disappeared, and I am grateful for the lessons I learned from that experience. Some time later I was quickly healed, with a practitioner's help, of a severe attack of appendicitis.

As I look back over the years I have depended on Christian Science, I know I have been spared much I might otherwise have suffered. The physical help means less than the spiritual education Science has brought; the broadened outlook and understanding of Life it has given me, and the sense of love and appreciation of my brother man it has taught me, have meant immeasurably more. It has truly been "a light unto my path," no matter how dark the way has seemed at times, and has led me safely on.

For the privilege of membership in The Mother Church, membership and service in branch churches, and the inspiration of class instruction I am most grateful. I owe a great debt to our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for all her wise and loving provisions for us that we may continue to "grow in grace."—(Mrs.) Nellie B. Edwards, Neosho, Missouri.

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