Article November 22, 1900 Issue

How a Trained Nurse came into Christian Science

BY ERIKA FREDERIKSEN.

It was through the healing of a medical patient that I first heard of Christian Science. Though it was a most beautiful demonstration of instantaneous healing, the thought confronted me all the time, "Don't investigate this new method of healing, it will interfere with your nursing." But the harder I tried to forget it, the stronger was the desire to know something about it. That I did obey the still, small voice of Truth, and bought "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," I am most thankful to God.

What a revelation it was, as I read and began to learn that there is a true Science which rests on the basis of a fixed Principle, and to know that God is the divine Principle who heals all our disease! I had seen the nothingness of medicine. How often have I been asked by the doctor to give a hypodermic injection of water instead of morphine, where the patient would be groaning in pain; and the sufferer would sleep quietly, believing it was morphine that had given him relief.

I remember a patient who the doctor said was suffering from a stone in the bladder. We could not relieve him in the least by giving him injections of morphine. His fear of forming the morphine habit was so extreme that the drug had no effect upon him until it was given him in the form of capsules and he was told it was a remedy to dissolve the stone. Then he was relieved.

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