Testimony of Healing December 12, 1925 Issue

It is about four and a half years since I turned to...

Eveline T. G. Wybrants

It is about four and a half years since I turned to Christian Science for help. During the years of the war I joined an ambulance corps, and helped in other work. Later I drove in the motor transport of the Royal Air Force. All through that time I felt dreadfully ill, but was so desirous of doing my bit for my country that after an operation for appendicitis in 1915 I was back at the wheel again four months later, though I had been warned not to do anything for a year and a half. I had been taken to the hospital in a dying condition; but all the time I felt that I was not going to die, as God still had work for me to do in this world. I did wonder why He should send me such terrible pain and weariness, when I was so anxious to help my fellow-men! I could not think of Him as a God of love.

Near the end of the war I had to undergo another operation, and was in a nursing home for six months. It seemed to me that God had deserted me altogether. The result of the two operations was to bring on severe adhesions, and I was told another operation was the only remedy for them. This seemed to me nonsense, considering they were the result of the other operations, and I felt, anyway, that I could never undergo another; but constant pain, severe indigestion, and a complication of other troubles, mental and physical, were just wearing me out, and death seemed to me to the only release.

The light came at last when I heard of the instantaneous healing of a friend by Christian Science. She had been a sufferer for many years, and I noticed a great change in her, mentally and physically. I went to a Christian Science practitioner, thinking I too might have a wonderful instantaneous healing. Instead, I had a desperate struggle with my belief in materia medica for eight days—a series of hopes, doubts, and fears, which ended, however, in a glorious victory. One day as I read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, a great light shone on the page, and the thought came, This is the truth! It was the healing thought. I had indeed found the truth for which I had been longing all my life. It was a great joy to me to find that God did not send pain and disease, and I felt that now I could love Him.

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