I wish to avail myself of the...

Marion S. McDowell with contributions from Lillian M. Stewart

I wish to avail myself of the privilege of testifying to the healing and redeeming power of Christian Science.

When I was about nine years old I suffered intensely from a stomach trouble which kept me confined to my bed for over two months. It seemed that the treatments and medicine of the physicians did me no good. About this time a friend of my mother's recommended we try Christian Science. My mother called a Christian Science practitioner and treatment was given. In less than three days I was out of bed, and within a week I was completely healed. I am truly most grateful for this healing, for it has been a source of encouragement to my family and me all through the years. I am also most grateful for having had the privilege of attending the Christian Science Sunday School for several years following this healing.

Another healing which stands out in my thought is that of severe pain and suffering at monthly periods. For ten years during young womanhood I strayed from the teachings of Christian Science. During these years I suffered so severely each month that I was forced to stay in bed at least a full day. I took every kind of medicine which anyone told me of, and several special prescriptions were prepared for me, which brought only temporary relief. Then, in 1931, I began earnestly to study and practice Christian Science. With the loving help of a consecrated practitioner this trouble was met in a few months, and the healing has been permanent.

During the years that have followed I have had many beautiful healings and have witnessed many in my home. I was healed of the cigarette habit as a result of reading a testimony in the Christian Science Sentinel and the testimony on page 693 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. Lack was eradicated from our home and harmonious employment was given to my husband and me through our knowing that there is only one employer, God, and that He supplies His children with all good.

I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, and for the privilege of serving the Cause of Christian Science in a small way through branch church activity. Especially am I grateful for working in the Sunday school, because I know that the earnest work of my teachers and what I learned while attending the Sunday school protected and carried me through many unhappy experiences, and led me back to Christian Science, through which I have learned the truth about life, which reflects Life.

I am very grateful to God for our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for the spiritual understanding of the truths in the Bible which have unfolded to me through the study of her wonderful book, Science and Health, and for all the Christian Science periodicals.

I cannot close this testimony without expressing my humble gratitude and appreciation for all the Christian Science practitioners, who have so unselfishly consecrated their lives to helping us in our hours of need.—(Mrs.) Marion S. McDowell, Chicago, Illinois.

I wish to verify my daughter's testimony. It is with a deep sense of joy that I express my gratitude for Christian Science. It came to me in an hour of great need, as an answer to prayer for my daughter and for help in what seemed to be an inharmonious home.

I have had many healings in Christian Science, but the most outstanding one occurred about four years ago, when I was healed of fear and a nervous breakdown. Through the loving and consecrated work of a Christian Science practitioner freedom came.

My heart overflows with gratitude to God, to Christ Jesus, to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and to the consecrated practitioner who has so often helped me in difficult hours. I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, and for the privilege of serving in the latter. —(Mrs.) Lillian M. Stewart, Dowagiac, Michigan.

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