Testimony of Healing October 20, 1928 Issue

When I look back through the years I can see that my...

Evangeline Ecker

When I look back through the years I can see that my life was made up of anxious and worried thoughts, which were manifested in all sorts of discord and inharmony. At times I seemed so burdened that I wondered if life were really worth living. It was at the time I seemed most heavily burdened that I was led to try Christian Science.

Our little son had undergone an operation for hernia. Several weeks after the operation, I discovered a condition more alarming that the first. I immediately took him to several doctors, and the last one told me he would have to submit to another operation, more delicate than the first one. This verdict was cause for a great deal of worry and anxiety, almost beyond endurance; for how did I know the second operation might not also be a failure?

I began reading the Christian Science literature, and devoted a great deal of time to study of this wonderful truth that had come to me. Our little son was not quickly healed. One evening several years later my husband, who at that time knew nothing about Christian Science, said, "You have had Christian Science treatments for our son and he is apparently no better; he will have to have an operation." This seemed to awaken me, and I again went to a Christian Science practitioner, who patiently and lovingly tried to show me God's perfect child and not a sick child, such as I had been looking at. One evening not long after, the child said, "Daddy, do you know I am all healed?" As yet there was no outward sign that a healing had taken place, but each day the enlargement grew smaller and smaller, until at the end of a week it had entirely disappeared.

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