Testimony of Healing December 2, 1933 Issue

In my work as a medical nurse I had come to the conclusion...

Enes J. Hollander

In my work as a medical nurse I had come to the conclusion that sickness was more mental than physical. I nursed in institutions in different states and found that a patient's recovery usually depended on his confidence or belief in the doctor and his medicine. I found that I had lost practically all my faith in medicine.

Over three years ago I came home for one of my periodic visits and was told that my mother had been healed of rheumatism through Christian Science. I thought to myself that it was a good thing that something had been discovered for the so-called incurable diseases. Then through curiosity I started to read Science and Health. After reading a few chapters I skeptically thought, Yes, this is good as a last resort, but it cannot do anything for my corns. Glancing down at my feet I was amazed to see that corns, which I had had for a long time, had disappeared. The proof was so absolute that I could never again doubt Truth's healing power. I was also healed of the smoking habit, though I did not then realize that this healing had taken place. My healings were so sudden that I was startled at the instant and radical changes in the course of my life. What inexpressible freedom! Then I learned to study the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lessons, and to be my own physician with God's help.

One morning at four o'clock I awakened with what I recognized as an attack of appendicitis. Mortal mind suggested certain material means, but when I realized that I was acknowledging error, I immediately began to declare the truth about God's child. The desire came to awaken my mother, but seeing this as only an argument for human sympathy I turned to the Bible and Science and Health to read the Lesson, and found that when I turned wholly to God I was immediately healed.

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