A friend, who saw the need of...

Nita D. McElroy

A friend, who saw the need of the Comforter in our home, kindly let me read her copy of Prose Works by Mary Baker Eddy. Never in my life had I read anything so refreshing to my parched thinking. I sat up late at night to read, and let my housework go undone, because I felt I must finish reading the book before she returned for it.

I did not know that one might be healed by just reading the books Mrs. Eddy had written, but my first healing came about in just that way. Years before, I had sustained an injury to the spine, resulting from a fall. One day, while lying down to rest, I was thinking about the wonderful things I had just read, and suddenly a bone in my back snapped into place. It was a great surprise to me, but I knew it was a healing.

Soon after finishing the copy of Prose Works, I joyfully purchased "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by the same author, and a copy of the Christian Science Quarterly, and started to study in earnest.

One day our youngest son had a rash on his head and face, accompanied by fever and swelling. I read to him. trying to see him as well, but for two or three days there was no change. I then told him I had done all I could do in Christian Science, so I felt we must try medicine. He reminded me of a statement in Science and Health (p. 144), "If Mind is foremost and superior, let us rely upon Mind, which needs no cooperation from lower powers, even if these so-called powers are real." The boy was instantaneously healed, and went back to school, and at the same time medicine lost its hold over me.

When our little daughter was learning to swim, she started out to a sand bar in the river, where the other children were. It was a greater distance than she had counted on and there were fifteen feet of water beneath her. When she had covered a little more than half the distance, she called to me, saying she could not make it. I told her she could make it and urged her to go on. In the Lesson-Sermon in the Quarterly that week there was a reference from Romans, "For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things." This verse gave me the spiritual support I needed, and the child reached the sand bar safely.

An elder son was rejected by the Navy doctors on account of a bad heart condition. He was informed it was the kind of heart that would never be any better. That verdict I refused to agree with. The boy was accepted by the Navy six months later, when he renewed his efforts to join. He has had no trouble since that time.

A practitioner was called when it seemed a loved one was passing on. He was free the next day, but because of fear a doctor was called. He was examined carefully and found to be all right. Since that experience he has enjoyed better health than before.

The sacred privilege of going through class was mine after proving, with the aid of a consecrated teacher, that nothing can obstruct the path of Christian Science.

We as a family are growing in the understanding of God, and man in His image and likeness, and therefore are enjoying a greater sense of protection than ever before; dispositions are improving, and we are being blessed in many ways.

I am grateful to God, to Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, and to our dear Leader. I also appreciate the practitioners who have so lovingly and patiently helped me. I am indeed grateful for all the activities of the Christian Science organization.—(Mrs.) Nita D. McElroy, Port Orange, Florida.

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