Testimony of Healing January 3, 1931 Issue

Christian Science came to me in answer to prayer

Daise Buergelin

Christian Science came to me in answer to prayer. For many years I had been sickly. I had sought here and there for health, had gone from one doctor to another, and had tried various remedies suggested by loving friends, submitting twice to operations. But in spite of all my condition continued to grow worse, until the time came when I had to take to my bed for a longer period than ever before.

The physician, whom my husband called, after an examination said I had a fibroid tumor, which he believed would grow into a cancer if not attended to at once. He urged an immediate operation, but I could not bring myself to submit to it. I had seemingly come to the end of the road and was just waiting to die, but my extremity proved to be God's opportunity. One morning after overexerting my strength I cried aloud, "O God, what shall I do?" The answer came at once when a lady from another city came to my home and told me of Christian Science. She told me about God and my relationship to Him, which seemed to my darkened sense too good to be true; but she said that only the good is true. She brought with her a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and some other Christian Science literature. My husband came home before she left, and he said, "Yes, we will try Christian Science." He became a student also, and had a beautiful healing, in a few weeks, of chronic constipation.

I began to sleep well at night (this had been impossible for a long time), and with the help of a loving practitioner the erroneous manifestations began to fall away one by one. There was one error, however, which I had a greater fear of, and it took much loving mental work before this, too, vanished into nothingness. It is now nineteen years since my first healing, and I am rejoicing in health and strength. I am able to do both a man's and a woman's work here on my little farm in Indiana. I have had many occasions to prove God's love and care, and He has never failed me. One such occasion was at the time of the passing on of my husband, four years ago. I have been lifted above the sense of grief and separation and of the fear of staying alone.

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