Testimony of Healing March 10, 1928 Issue

I should like to add my pæan of praise to that of others...

Bernice Young Sacks

I should like to add my pæan of praise to that of others who are voicing their appreciation and gratitude for Christian Science. In 1917 I took up the study of Christian Science earnestly, after dabbling in it for two or three years, in the hope of being healed of a disease which persisted in the form of sudden attacks of fainting and weak spells, sometimes confining me to my bed for several days, a malady of many years' standing. The disease had been diagnosed by three or four leading physicians as of an indefinite nature and as hard to cure. I underwent a series of treatments by two of these physicians without receiving help, and a third prescribed an operation as a possible cure.

I was very unhappy, and upon several occasions felt that the end was very near. I was filled with fear, and the whole atmosphere about me seemed drenched with tragic anticipation. My mistake in those days was to wait until I found myself in the midst of the attack before pursuing the study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy; consequently my healing was slow. However, I saw the error of this and corrected it; and as I very gradually began to practice what I read, I found traits of character changing, and was slowly lifted from the place which seemed a veritable hell.

Some years ago when I was about to be confined, the doctor announced that the child could not be born. I had been having treatment from a practitioner for several months and gave the doctor's verdict little serious thought. He asked me if I would go to the hospital and take an anæsthetic. I said, No. I afterwards learned that he went downstairs and told my husband that the situation was very serious. The child was born twelve hours later without the use of instruments. When my husband came into the room the doctor said, "You can thank the Almighty that your wife is rooted in Christian Science." The practitioner was very faithful, and on the ninth day I walked downstairs, having had no ill effects.

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