Testimony of Healing October 15, 1938 Issue

Christ Jesus said, "Come unto me, all ye that labour...

Violet E. Dicker

Christ Jesus said, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." In gratitude and praise to God I wish to write this testimony in hope that someone weary and heavy-laden may find rest and comfort such as I have found through the study and teachings of the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy.

I have been an earnest student of Christian Science for the last seventeen or eighteen years. I did not take up this study for any physical healing, but because I found it a very helpful and practical teaching, which could be applied anywhere and for any problem. During these years Christian Science has never failed me when applied with the right desire and a correct understanding of God and His perfect kingdom. Many discordant and unhappy conditions in our home have been healed, and health and harmony restored. I can truthfully say I am today a better woman, physically, mentally, and spiritually, through having gained a better understanding of God as Father-Mother, of my relationship to Him, and of my fellow men as reflecting the one Father-Mother God. This has given me a more peaceful, happy, and harmonious outlook on life.

Before taking up this teaching, in fact, from childhood, I had always suffered from chest and stomach trouble. Fear of climatic conditions kept me sick and unhappy for years. My one wish was to go to a higher altitude, and the doctor told me I should be better for the change. But with earnest and prayerful daily study of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, and the loving help of practitioners from time to time, together with the benefits from membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, this difficulty has been overcome, and I can never cease to be grateful. I also suffered for a time from heart attacks, which occasionally were very distressing. They always came on at night when I had just fallen asleep, and I had to get immediate help, for I felt too ill to help myself. The last time help was given, I asked my husband to telephone to the practitioner, who asked what the trouble was, and I said, "Heart attack." This was the first time I had mentioned the name of the difficulty, since I had never known the nature of these attacks. I fell asleep after loving help was given, and woke up with these words ringing in my ears: "There is no heart attack." That was the last time I ever had help for this belief. Nervous trouble, from which I had suffered for some years, has also completely left me. The doctor had told me I could never work again, because every organ of the body was affected, and I could neither eat, sleep, nor work properly.

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