Testimony of Healing December 14, 1935 Issue

Several years ago I suffered from many forms of discord...

Bess Patterson

Several years ago I suffered from many forms of discord which were finally manifested on my body. I awakened one morning feeling very ill, and upon being examined by a doctor I was informed that I had pleurisy with effusion. I continued to run a high temperature and was advised by the doctor to go to a hospital for further examination. There I was informed that I had tuberculosis in an advanced stage, and that it would be necessary for me to go to a sanatorium for treatment and rest. I was sent to the Adirondacks, where I spent eighteen months in bed, during which time I submitted to surgical treatment and a minor operation.

Before I left home I was given a copy of Science and Health and a Christian Science Quarterly, and I kept these and my Bible with me constantly. In my extremity I prayed to God to give me more understanding so that I might apply what I had studied. Whenever the doctors gave me unfavorable reports I tried to know that I was perfect as God's image and likeness, and when I was overcome with homesickness for my family, I would constantly repeat that there is no separation between God's ideas.

After I had been away a year my husband became interested in Christian Science and he withdrew our children from the Sunday school they had been attending and placed them in the Christian Science Sunday School, which had long been my desire. This demonstration of progress was indeed encouraging, and I immediately realized that my prayer had been heard and that at last we had found the right road—the road to salvation.

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