Testimony of Healing January 29, 1938 Issue

It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I desire to bear...

Gladys Pehrson

It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I desire to bear witness to the healing and regenerating power of Christian Science. This Science was brought to my mother's notice twenty-six years ago, and with the help of a practitioner she was permanently healed of a discordant condition of many years' standing, for which medical science had been able to offer no relief. At that time I was very lame, the result of an accident to an ankle three years previously. I was wearing a surgical boot, and was unable to take part in school games or any kind of physical recreation. Christian Science treatment was given me, and immediately I was able to discard the boot and take a normal part in school life. A slight lameness persisted for some time, but as self-consciousness and sensitiveness were corrected with the true sense of self as God's image and likeness, this too was overcome.

During the last twenty-six years I have had many proofs of God's loving care and guidance. Severe colds and influenza have on many occasions been very quickly healed, in some cases instantaneously, and I have been able to carry on my work without interruption. Discordant physical conditions and other problems have presented themselves, but as these have been overcome, they have left me with a firmer conviction of the truth of Christian Science and a keener desire to "press on towards the high calling whereunto divine Love has called us" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, by Mrs. Eddy, p. 201).

A brother who served in the air force on active service in France in 1917–1918 had many wonderful proofs of the protecting power of Christian Science, and came through that experience untouched. The same brother was severely burned when a methylated spirit lamp exploded in his face. A practitioner was asked to help, and the following day he was able to take a long train journey as previously arranged, and within a week there was not a sign or a scar to show that anything had occurred.

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