Testimony of Healing March 14, 1931 Issue

As I look over the years in which I knew nothing of...

Josephine Bruns

As I look over the years in which I knew nothing of Christian Science, thought is always filled with a deep sense of gratitude to God for the yearnings which were experienced, as well as for all that then seemed to be grievous but which proved to be stepping-stones to the finding of God.

During those years I was an active member of another denomination, and having always been a Bible student I spent a great deal of time wondering just what existence was all about; why it was that, with all the beautiful Bible promises, God saw fit to hide Himself from us, and why, try as we might to live up to our highest ideals, yet we had no positive knowledge that we pleased God or that He cared for or was even conscious of us. After a while, being told that those were very unnatural things for one of my age to be concerned about, I began to think that something dreadful was going to happen to me; and so I made a desperate effort to dismiss them from thought. But this was not to be done, and on various occasions when I was alone with these thoughts tears were shed over this disappointment, until I grew very despondent.

I had been in poor health for some time and had spent much in search of relief, but without success. Later the trouble was diagnosed by a number of physicians in this city, as well as by one from another city, as an incurable spinal disease and other complications with which I had at that time been bedfast for ten months. At times I was not able to raise my arms to feed myself or to have my head propped high enough to be fed, and food was given me through a tube. During those trying months Christian Science was lovingly offered a number of times but rejected, as I felt that I had prayed almost continually without result, and surely no one else's prayers could help me. So it remained for my dear mother to summon a Christian Science practitioner to my aid at a time when the attending physicians, who administered nothing but morphine, had given me but a short while to live.

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