Testimony of Healing August 26, 1933 Issue

I did not come into Christian Science for healing, but to...

Anna A. Bredeson

I did not come into Christian Science for healing, but to find God, whom I had been seeking for many years, as the concept of God I had did not appeal to me. I spent many years in tears and prayers, pleading in my prayers, but with no satisfaction, until I feared I should lose my reason. My desire was to commit suicide. I was indeed a wreck mentally, and was becoming one physically. I was continually brooding; self-pity, self-condemnation, were constantly with me. These words in Romans helped me to overcome this: "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." I was reared on a farm, one of eleven children. My dear mother, who was a firm believer in God, taught us, to the best of her understanding, to trust God and to turn to Him in prayer as she had often done. And I am grateful for her sincerity.

My first healing in Christian Science occurred about twenty-six years ago. I was instantaneously healed of all pain from a skin disease which I could not name, but which pained me as though I had been burned, and for which I could find no material remedy that promised any relief. During this experience I was also healed in one week's time of chronic constipation from which I had suffered since childhood; often a week would pass without any action. Although I did not earnestly take up the study of Christian Science at this time, the experience remained very sacred to me. The blessed words of truth spoken to me by a lady, of whom I have not since heard, were as a benediction from heaven. I was also relieved of a great sense of worry, for which I am very grateful. For the first time in my human experience I was told, by this same lady, that God is Love, who sends only good to His children, and that I was one of His well-beloved children.

I was at that time in very miserable surroundings. I did not dare mention Christian Science. After I was removed from that atmosphere, Christian Science came to me the second time, and then I was ready to study it. I have never ceased to be grateful for it, and it has been my only physician since then. Prior to that time I had been under doctors' care at intervals, and several of them had advised an operation as a remedy for an internal disorder, which was healed in three treatments through the application of Christian Science.

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