Testimony of Healing February 3, 1945 Issue

With a heart full of gratitude to...

Helen Carey Werntz

With a heart full of gratitude to God and to our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, I offer this testimony of healing.

My mother, who began to study Science when I was fifteen, was healed of stomach trouble and nervous chills, for which she had doctored many years. She was also healed of appendicitis.

When my son was born I consented to have Christian Science help. I had one absent treatment from a practitioner. I was up the second day, and when the baby was one week old I walked to town and back, a distance of nine blocks each way. Despite this, I did not take up the study of Christian Science until fifteen years later. After doctoring for a year and a half I decided to ask for help from a practitioner. With her help I was healed of a nervous breakdown. This was not a quick healing. There were many false beliefs to overcome, such as self-condemnation and sensitiveness. Two statements from "Miscellaneous Writings" by Mrs. Eddy (p. 223) were most helpful: "To punish ourselves for others' faults, is superlative folly;" and (p. 224), "Well may we feel wounded by our own faults; but we can hardly afford to be miserable for the faults of others." I had been condemning myself for a slow healing. One day while I was talking to the practitioner, she said, "self-condemnation is lack of gratitude." I had never thought of it that way. I had received so many other healings while trying to overcome the nervous breakdown that I knew I could not be ungrateful for the good already received. I saw that in condemning myself I was seeing man as a mortal, condemning myself for something that was not true.

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