Testimony of Healing August 13, 1932 Issue

At three important periods of my life Christian Science...

June Russell Beeler

At three important periods of my life Christian Science was presented to me. The first time I was too young and care-free to believe I needed it then, and felt it was something I could turn to any time if needed. Ten years later it was again presented to me, at the most critical period of my life, when one by one my dear ones went out of my life, three by death and one by disgrace. All my worldly goods, health, home, and money, were lost; and I found myself alone in the world with one young child, no business training of any kind, and without even clothing suitable to apply for a respectable position. I rejected Christian Science the second time, after a half-hearted attempt to understand it, and struggled on for another ten years. This time my sufferings were so intense that I was as a drowning person, and willing to grasp at anything that held out the slightest hope. My last cent was spent for "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy; and my feet were guided to a dear student of Christian Science, whose home I entered "without money and without price," although she was a total stranger to me, nor did I know at the time that she was a Christian Scientist.

Soon after entering her home I became extremely ill with a swelling beneath my ear. A Christian Science practitioner was called, and for twenty-one days she worked patiently and lovingly for me, and I was not only healed but regenerated. I took my stand then for Christian Science, and have since been healed of chronic catarrh, enlarged tonsils and palate, adenoids, and liver, stomach, and heart trouble. The stomach trouble was of many years' duration; my mother had passed on at an early age from cancer, and I was believed to have inherited this from her. A fractured knee was healed in one treatment by a practitioner; extreme lack was overcome, and I now rejoice in abundance, home, happiness, love, and great spiritual riches. When I contemplate my former barren life, I realize that truly I am a new creature, old things are indeed passed away; and while my gratitude to God for my own healings is greater than words ever can express, the joy that has come to me through my increased spiritual understanding, whereby I have been able to help others out of the bondage of false beliefs, is indeed even greater. Nothing can equal the happiness that comes as a result of seeing sickness turned into health, poverty into plenty, and sorrow into joy in answer to one's prayers. My gratitude is unbounded for all that Christian Science means to me.

(Mrs.) June Russell Beeler, Los Angeles, California.

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