Testimony of Healing May 14, 1932 Issue

I should like to express my great gratitude for the many...

Anna Eleonora Martens

I should like to express my great gratitude for the many blessings I have received through Christian Science, especially for a healing which I experienced some years ago. Always when I think of this healing I thank God with my whole heart for His infinite love, with which He blesses all His children, and which I felt so clearly in the darkest hours of my life.

One day I fell ill with a very high fever, and my nose began to swell. This swelling at last spread over my whole head, and I suffered unbearably. My condition grew so much worse in a few days that my people, who lived in Buitenzorg, were sent for, and immediately they came to Batavia to take me home in a taxicab. When we arrived there, my sister at once called a doctor to diagnose my case and give me a certificate for the department where I was employed. He said the trouble was a blood poisoning before which materia medica was helpless; he could apply a certain remedy, but he had not much faith in it. He wanted to prescribe something for my heart, but I refused, telling him that I wanted only Christian Science help. My father, who is not a Christian Scientist, was going to insist upon my taking it, but the doctor silenced him by saying that we have not the right to force one another, but that we should respect one another's convictions.

All this time I had been under Christian Science treatment, but as my condition did not improve my sister thought it wiser to ask another practitioner for help. After two absent treatments not only had the fever disappeared, but the pain and the swelling had lessened remarkably. Two days latter, when the doctor came to bring me the certificate, my sister asked him if he wanted to see me and he said he did. When be entered the room, he stopped in amazement when he saw me and exclaimed, "Splendid!" He examined my face and head from all sides and could only say, "This is magnificent, wonderful!" Within a week I could leave my room, and a week later I was back at my work. Everyone was surprised that I had been healed so soon, and without medical help.

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