Testimony of Healing November 9, 1929 Issue

About six years ago I came into Christian Science after...

E. Edith Lieberman

About six years ago I came into Christian Science after seeing the good it had done and was doing my mother and sister. For a while I studied and was grateful for the healings and protection that came to me; but I was not grateful enough, for in less than a year I gave up the study because of experiencing a fancied hurt through one who professed to be a Christian Scientist. But the truth had evidently taken a stronger hold than I supposed, for I could not get it out of my consciousness. My thoughts would constantly turn toward it, with the result that at the birth of my second child, in my hour of deepest need, I found myself clinging to the truth. All I could remember at the time was "the scientific statement of being" as given in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 468), and one line of the twenty-third psalm, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me." I kept repeating them over and over again. The result was an almost painless delivery.

Still, my faith was not restored to me and troubles kept coming. My little son and I had influenza twice in four months. There was a recurrence of a condition for which I had had an operation and medical treatment several years before, and I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Medical treatment failed, and the physician suggested another operation. But even with that he gave me no promise of relief. My mother then suggested that I give Christian Science another trial. I was willing, so I told the physician that I would first try Christian Science and if it failed I would then have the operation. He was very kind about it, and said he was glad to have me try anything that I thought would help me.

Work was taken up by a practitioner and I resumed my study of Christian Science. With two weeks' treatment, most of it absent, I was healed. It seemed too good to be true! I could not believe that anything that had caused me so much distress could be so quickly and easily healed. Doubt, however, again began to assail me, and in a few weeks "the thing which I greatly feared" had come upon me. I called the practitioner and she lovingly took up the work once more, giving me certain things to read to clear my consciousness of doubt. In several weeks I was completely healed. The healing has proved permanent, and I have not had the slightest return of any of the former symptoms.

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