Testimony of Healing April 30, 1938 Issue

For eleven months after the birth of my first child I suffered...

Virginia H. Wailes

For eleven months after the birth of my first child I suffered from hemorrhoids. The pain was so excruciating that for days at a time I could not attend to my household duties, and even neglected the care of the baby. As I had always attended a Christian Science Sunday School during my childhood, I did not know of any other teaching or anything about medical science; so, during the suffering, I tried to apply the truth as taught in the Bible and in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. One morning I was so desperate that I told my husband I must talk to a practitioner to see why I was not being healed. I had tried to analyze my thinking and weed out anything that might be hindering the demonstration. I had tried to express gratitude and joy, praise and patience and perseverance, but to all appearances the trouble kept getting worse.

That morning after I made the decision, the thought came to me that "the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." I thought of the thousands of leaves on one tree and of how just one leaf, or thought of Truth, was all that was necessary for my healing. I also thought that one word of Truth is more powerful than all the error in the world. As we were newcomers in the city, I did not know of a practitioner, so I consulted the Journal and with a heart full of expectancy went to talk to the practitioner selected. After a most delightful and inspiring conversation, I returned home—instantaneously healed. That was eleven years ago, and I have never had the slightest return of the trouble, although since then I have had two more children. At the birth of the second child, six years later, and the third, twelve years later, I held to the truth that a Christian Science healing is permanent.

It is a constant joy and satisfaction to be able to have the children go to the Christian Science Sunday School, for I know of no greater privilege and blessing than to be taught Christian Science.

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