How wonderful it is to learn about the way reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy has transformed lives.
This year's Annual Meeting of The Mother Church included the testimony of Laura Leigh Robinson (about 49 minutes from the beginning of the recording) whose healing occurred after four days of reading Science and Health.
Another example of a life transformed is that of Nellie Eveleth, Mrs. Eddy's long-time dressmaker. This month's newsletter from the Longyear Foundation includes her story, as retold by Stacy Teicher. Here's a portion of the Longyear article, which includes a portion of Nellie's testimony, printed in the Dec. 1904 edition of The Christian Science Journal:
As Mary Baker Eddy’s seamstress from 1907 to 1910, Nellie Eveleth made many dresses, wraps, and other clothing with materials ranging from taffeta to velvet...
Years before Miss Eveleth began making beautiful clothes, she was struck by “the beauty of the truth” in Mrs. Eddy’s book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which she explored after decades of invalidism:
“I began at the beginning, and never shall I forget the beauty of the truth I saw there,” Miss Eveleth wrote in a testimony. “[I]t was logical, every part fitted every other part. After reading a hundred pages I arose from my bed practically well, better than I had ever been in my life, and my joy knew no bounds. Then began the work of demonstrating this truth.”
Nellie's full testimony is quite lovely and is available on jsh-online. If you don't currently have a subscription, your local Christian Science Reading Room will be very happy to furnish you with a free copy. It's noteworthy that her thought transformation was not quick. She was quite prejudiced against Christian Science and had determined never to read Science and Health. She decided to read four pages ... and then just kept reading.
Julie Swannell
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