When Christian Science was...

Dorothy V. Knell

When Christian Science was presented to my mother, it was to answer her questions about religion and the Bible rather than for physical healing. So convincing were the facts stated in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and Prose Works by Mary Baker Eddy that, although we had depended on various kinds of medicine for our well-being, my mother cleared out the medicine closet and threw everything away. From then on our whole family relied entirely on Christian Science.

I was ten years old at the time and was privileged to attend the Christian Science Sunday School until the age of twenty. My first healing was of tonsillitis that I had had twice a year for as long as I could remember.

I am filled with gratitude for the many healings, as well as the protection, that my parents, my little sister, and I experienced by having this Science in our home.

It was very easy to rely upon my mother and practitioners when I needed help, but on one occasion when I was away from home and unable to reach a practitioner it looked as though I should not be able to fulfill a contract. Then I realized it was about time that I proved for myself some of the truths I had learned. The healing was quick and wonderful to me. I was able to sing three difficult numbers twice a day, although unable to speak above a whisper. Before the week was over the healing was complete and I was entirely free.

Since I have been married, the difficulties overcome, sometimes through our own work and sometimes with the loving help of a practitioner, have been too numerous to mention. Adequate supply, health, a cheerful home, and harmonious companionship are only a few of the things that call forth my deepest gratitude.

I had no medical prenatal care before the births of our children, and the doctor was called, in compliance with the state law where we were living at the time, only to attend at the births. He said at the birth of our first son. "God has been working in this house," and admitted that if I had been in the hospital he would have used instruments and I should not have had my baby.

The third birth was free from pain. The doctor told me that he wished more women knew about Christian Science.

Our three boys have been brought up in Christian Science, and are benefiting every day from its teachings, at times working out their own problems. We have had healings of appendicitis, a brain tumor, deafness. infection, and a nervous breakdown. We have been blessed in finding our right place in home, business, and church activities. It was a great privilege for my husband and me to have class instruction together.

We consider ourselves indeed grateful witnesses to God's goodness, to the healing efficacy of Truth proved by Christ Jesus, and to the Bible prophecy of the second coming of the Christ revealed to us in Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy.—(Mrs.) Dorothy V. Knell, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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