Testimony of Healing October 2, 1926 Issue

As my mother came from a noble Spanish family and my...

Dolores R. Dem. Hunn

As my mother came from a noble Spanish family and my father was a member of the religious society of Friends, the religious atmosphere of our home was anything but harmonious. I was never allowed to attend Sunday school or go to church; and, indeed, my parents very seldom went either. When I grew up, being very gay and fond of pleasure, I was not at all attracted by my father's, to me, severe religious views, and I became a member of the Episcopal church, of which my mother had also become a member. I did not understand its teachings, and a few years later found that I did not believe them; so I left the church. About this time my elder brother began the study of medicine. I was deeply interested in the things he told me, and turned to the material sciences, in which I had always been much interested, for the truth which I believed was to be found there. I did not believe in the Bible, or in God, but in a mysterious and unknown force which ruled the universe.

Then there came an experience which changed the whole course of our lives. My younger brother was taken suddenly very ill with tuberculosis, which we believed to be inherited; and although he left home at once and went West with my elder brother, who had given up his college course to go with him, he passed on in a few months' time. We were all stunned by this blow; and then it was that, ill and wretchedly unhappy, my elder brother and I floundered around mentally in earnest. He did not return to college; and he and I tried everything, from spiritualism and theosophy to new-thought, but found that we did not like or believe in any of them.

About this time a lady whom I had accidentally met lent me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and we started to read it. We literally fought our way through the book, and finally found it to contain the truth for which we had been seeking so long. When we came to this conclusion, I went to see a practitioner and had Christian Science treatment, of which I was in great need. I had been an invalid for years, never knowing what it was to feel well and strong, and had been under the care of doctors and specialists, my father having spent hundreds of dollars on me with no lasting benefit; and I had been pronounced incurable. When I learned that a kind and loving God was my Father, I was freed from hereditary tuberculosis and gallstones, two diseases from which many of my father's family had passed on. I was also healed of the fear of climate, caused by my having been told that I could never be well in the East.

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