Testimony of Healing May 1, 1909 Issue

With thanks to God, and to dear Mrs. Eddy, our beloved...

Margaret C. Von Essen

With thanks to God, and to dear Mrs. Eddy, our beloved Leader, I will tell some of the good I have received through Christian Science, as I could not enumerate all of the blessings that have come to me through this healing truth. A little over three years ago I suffered from a second attack of abdominal trouble. I was packed in ice and my people thought I could not recover. The physician was very kind and did all he could for me, and while I did recover from this attack, yet I was unable to do any work whatever, and I was continually oppressed with the fear that I might at any time have a relapse. I was advised to have an operation, but to this I would not submit, even though I was very tired of living constantly in pain and fear. I also had a number of other ailments,—rheumatic and catarrhal trouble, headaches, etc.

One day a dear friend said to me, "Come up to my house tomorrow and I will tell you of something better than an operation." This was just like having a stone lifted from my heart, to hear of something better than an operation, and I lost no time in availing myself of her invitation. This friend told me that her mother, then seventy-eight years old, had been healed in Christian Science, and she gave me a dear little book to read, "Rudimental Divine Science," by Mrs. Eddy.

One statement that I read in this book, "The emphatic purpose of Christian Science is the healing of sin; and this task, sometimes, may be harder than the cure of disease" (p. 2), especially appealed to me, as I was at that time a member of an orthodox church and very well satisfied in my belief also an earnest worker in the church. My sister urged me to see a Christian Science practitioner, and I did so, thinking I would first investigate, and learn if the healing came from God. When I asked the practitioner this question, he informed me that in Christian Science God is understood to be Love and all-power. I then asked about the Ten Commandments, and he again kindly explained that Christian Scientists believe that when they keep the First Commandment they keep all of them. I had never before realized there is so much in the First Commandment. I then asked for treatment, and in about two months I was entirely healed. After the first few treatments I walked about a half mile to and from the practitioner's office. I am happy to say that all the other ailments have left me. My eyes also had troubled me, so that I had to wear glasses, but I have not put them on since having Christian Science treatment and my eyes are perfectly well. Here I would like to say that I have not taken any medicine since my healing in Christian Science, and I am feeling better then I ever did before.

Send a comment to the editors

We'd love to hear from you!

Easily submit your testimonies, articles, and poems online.

Submit

With thanks to God, and to dear Mrs. Eddy, our beloved...

We'd love to hear from you!

Sign up for unlimited access