Testimony of Healing December 3, 1938 Issue

It has been my privilege for many years to enjoy some...

August Brauns

It has been my privilege for many years to enjoy some knowledge of the comfort and blessings brought to light through the study of Christian Science, as revealed in this age by our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.

I was led to accept Christian Science largely through the influence of a small child, whose faith in God's ever-presence was beautiful to see. When anything disturbed her, she would declare, God is Love, and repeat this statement until she was free and happy again. At the age of three she contracted chicken pox. I offered to dress her, but was refused because I might see "error spots." She knew that healing was not aided by displaying error; and on the fol lowing day she was again free and the "error spots" had disappeared. She had something I wanted, so I took up the study of Christian Science in earnest.

When I had been reading Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy for a short while, the desire for smoking left me. Some two years later a friend whom I visited, persuaded me to join him in a smoke. During the visit I was free from any ill effects, but on the train to town I began to suffer pains, which increased in severity during the night. I worked mentally to the best of my understanding, and it suddenly came to me that I had knowingly yielded to temptation in smoking that cigar. I offered a prayer of gratitude that I saw the error of disobedience, and then I vomited and was free, sleeping soundly thereafter.

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