Testimony of Healing December 2, 1911 Issue

Love for God and man impels me to offer my grateful...

Pearl Stuckey Knudsen

Love for God and man impels me to offer my grateful acknowledgment of benefits received from Christian Science. For nine years I had been seeking health and harmony through physicians and drugs, but without avail. As diagnosed by different physicians, I had partial paralysis of the bowels, and after all these years spent with materia medica, and later with other healing systems, I was in a much worse condition than when I began. Finally conditions grew alarming, and an acute attack was pronounced inflammation of the bowels and hemorrhoids, from which there was no relief except in a surgical operation. Then, as a last resort, I turned to Christian Science.

At this time I only knew that Christian Science claimed to heal the diseases of the flesh, and it was for this alone that I sought it. During these years of physical distress I had been very much dissatisfied with my spiritual status, so much so that at one time I removed my letter from the church of which I was a member, remaining outside of the organization for years; but I renewed my membership, because all of my family were there. I was seeking a practical religion, though up to this time my religious training had been beautifully theoretical but lamentably impracticable.

In September, 1907, I came to Christian Science for help, and was instantly healed of the inflammation and hemorrhoids and have had no return of the discordant conditions. Overjoyed at this beautiful demonstration of God's care, I told the practitioner that I must know how it was done, and he handed me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, saying that it was all explained in that book. I immediately began to read the text-book, and it is leading me to an understanding of God, who, as the psalmist declares, "forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases." It was four months, however, before the paralysis yielded and regular action was established. During these months the faithful practitioner steadily pointed me to "the only living and true God." I am thankful for this slower healing, for by the time I had received it I was seeking "first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness," and all things are being "added" unto me. Hereditary sick-headaches, neuralgia, and other diseases are gradually yielding to Truth.

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