Testimony of Healing July 18, 1931 Issue

It is over nine years since I began to study Christian Science

Grace Will Dunker

It is over nine years since I began to study Christian Science. I read nothing else, and tried to apply what I read as best I could to my problems; still I felt that I was not making the progress I should, but seemed to be standing still. After searching my thinking I still did not seem able to find out just what was holding me back, so I asked a Christian Science practitioner for help. The first thing she asked me was if I had ever had a healing in Christian Science. I told her I had had many of them; and she then asked me if I had ever given a testimony in Wednesday evening meetings, or if I had ever sent one to The Christian Science Publishing Society for publication. I told her that I had not, and she very lovingly pointed out to me that all this time I had been getting and not giving. I then realized that we must give, for truly "it is more blessed to give than to receive."

With a heart full of gratitude I should like to tell of my first healing in Christian Science. I had been very ill with pneumonia and almost passed on; and when the doctor pronounced me out of danger, he said that a power higher than his had brought me through. As soon as I was able to be moved I was taken to the home of my sister, who then lived in a small country town, as it was thought the country air would be beneficial to me. I had lost all my hair, and was almost a living skeleton. Instead of getting better I grew worse and worse; and finally my sister, very much alarmed, called the doctor. After an examination he pronounced me in a very bad condition, said that my recent illness had left me tubercular, and told her to send for my husband and my father, who were in another city, as I could live only a short while.

Just after the doctor's last visit, a neighbor came in and asked us to try Christian Science. I knew nothing about it, but indeed I had reached my extremity; and the next morning I sobbed out my story to a Christian Science practitioner. I told her that I had no money to pay her, as we had spent all we had on doctors and medicines, and my husband was out of employment at the time. I shall never forget, nor cease to be grateful for, the love she expressed when she said, "I shall be happy to make this demonstration for you, and it is my privilege to do so." I had seven treatments. The terrible cough stopped at once, and after the first three weeks I had short, thick hair all over my head. I had been told by scalp and hair experts that it would be at least two years before I could have any hair, as the fever had burned the scalp. The first six weeks I gained nine pounds in weight. I am happy to say that I have never had a return of the trouble.

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