"Out of the depths have I...

Irene Hillery Taft

"Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord" (Ps. 130:1), Surely when Christian Science found me I was in the depths of discouragement and despair. Our business had been completely wiped out after a disastrous fire, and we had a sick child, paralyzed and otherwise incapacitated by poliomyelitis.

For almost two years he had been under the care of medical doctors, undergoing every kind of treatment known at that time for this disease. But he continued to grow worse, and the verdict was that he would always be a helpless cripple. He was also suffering from chorea.

I finally turned to Christian Science for help. The financial problem was acute because of the depression, and jobs were scarce. I had little faith in Science; but at the behest of a beloved voice teacher, I agreed to visit a practitioner.

Almost immediately after I had thus turned my thought to God, my husband was offered a job in a large city, and we moved there. The first night that we were in our new home, the child seemed to be passing on with a phase of the disease that the doctors had told us could cause death eventually, and I was very fearful.

We knew no one in this city but the real estate man who had rented the house to us. I felt led to get in touch with him, because from the way he talked and acted I believed he was a Christian Scientist.

So at eleven o'clock at night I went next door and called him. He was a Scientist, and he immediately put me in touch with a practitioner. I talked briefly to her; and by the time I had returned to my house, the child was quietly asleep, and that particular phase of the disease was instantaneously healed.

The next morning I took the boy out to the practitioner's home, and she began to give him treatment in Christian Science. I started to read Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. I became so absorbed in this book that there was hardly a moment when it was out of my hands.

Within about two weeks the chorea was healed, and gradually over a period of about two months our son's healing was complete, except for the restoration of the wasted arm and shoulder, which had completely degenerated. But the restoration had begun and was eventually so complete that when this boy was examined for military registration at the age of eighteen, the examining doctor expressed unbelief that any such condition could have existed. Today this boy is an active, working Christian Scientist, and the father of six fine boys.

Since that time, over thirty years ago, Christian Science has been the way of Life to me. It has met my every need, physically and financially, and has helped me to achieve a fuller sense of home and companionship. My gratitude for God's goodness and care is boundless, and I am daily trying to be a better worker in His vineyard and thus help others find the truth.— (Mrs.) Irene Hillery Taft, Sarasota, Florida.

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