Testimony of Healing November 7, 1931 Issue

As a girl I began to wonder why the church I belonged...

Kenau De Burgh-Whyte

As a girl I began to wonder why the church I belonged to did not seem to help in time of trouble. When an earnest and loving clergyman came to visit the home after a dear one had passed on, he prayed with the sorrowing ones around that God would give them strength to bear the blow which He had inflicted on them. This made me revolt; and I could not see how God, who the Bible told us was Love, could be so cruel as to send us this great sorrow. From then on I looked for something I could not find in that church, although I did all I knew at that time to find it.

Four years later I developed what was pronounced an incurable disease. For four years I was laid up, specialists saying they could not cure me; and just here I should like to express my gratitude for those doctors who were so loving and patient in trying to do what they could. At this time my mother became ill, and a friend brought a copy of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, to our home and asked us to try Christian Science for my mother. When I took up this book and commenced to read, I knew at once I had found what I had for so many years looked for—God. I did not read it with any thought of healing for myself. I was simply engrossed in the truth I had found about God. When I finished reading the book I was completely healed. I got up and went for a long walk, the first for five years. In looking for God, and not for physical healing, I had found Him and had also found health.

From then on I have not taken medicine of any kind, but have relied entirely on Christian Science for the working out of the many problems that have come along. We have witnessed many beautiful healings in our home. My two sons, who are now grown up, have never known anything but Christian Science. The Bible, which always was a sealed book to me, has been opened up through the study of Christian Science and has become a store of endless wealth.

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