Testimony of Healing March 27, 1937 Issue

When first presented to me, Christian Science appealed...

Agnes G. Dunne

When first presented to me, Christian Science appealed only as a beautiful religion. But this glimpse of the spiritual beauty of Christian Science was almost obliterated for a time, by my giving time and thought to the study of different philosophies.

A serious illness which was unsuccessfully coped with by materia medica for five years, and the habit of worrying over my own and others' welfare, filled me with despair and discouragement. I felt I was slowly benefiting from a new medical treatment, when news of a serious accident to a member of my family was received. As I realized from previous experience that the attendant worry and anxiety would be detrimental to my thought turned to God, for I knew that only some power outside myself could establish peace of mind. Remembering that Christian Science was a beautiful religion, and with a sincere desire to learn something of God, I started to read some pamphlets that a friend supplied. It seems as though scales dropped from my eyes, for I understood so throughly what I read that before I had finished the first pamphlet I was able to perceive that it was God's responsibility and not my own to care for my loved ones, and that He was able and willing to do so, and I was filled with the greatest sense of peace I had ever experienced.

The friend who supplied the Christian Science literature told me that I could obtain physical healing as well as mental, but I scoffed at the idea of physical healing by means of Christian Science, though I admitted it might bring me peace of mind. I continued to read other pamphlets, and my friend read the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly with me a few evenings and told me of some of her healings. The understanding that I gained enabled me to conclude logically that mental healing and physical healing were one and the same. Realizing that if God could heal my friend physically He could heal me, I decide one evening to take no more medicine, but to trust God. The next morning I experienced my first healing in Christian Science. My great joy and sense of gratitude were not so much for the physical healing as for the proof that there was a God, and one who could and would help and heal us.

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