Testimony of Healing June 18, 1938 Issue

Words can never express my deep feeling of gratitude to...

Signe Marie Engebretsen

Words can never express my deep feeling of gratitude to Mary Baker Eddy for what she has given to mankind in Science and Health and her other writings. I am especially thankful because she has explained the Christ.

Christian Science has taught me that God is indeed the only Life, and my help under all circumstances. Before I knew about this Science, I used to go from one end of our town to another hoping to hear a minister who could give me something to live for, but I never was satisfied. I was always longing for something to fill my life. When at last I was led to Christian Science, I knew I had found what I had been seeking. I was not healthy, but I did not mind about that; I only longed to know more of this wonderful religion. From that time, about thirty years ago, the Christian Science church has been the only church to me, and God my only Physician. As I studied this Science, some physical inharmonies left me, among them being hay fever and player's cramp. I have also occasionally had help from practitioners, for which I am most grateful.

I should like to tell about a healing I had ten years ago. I was run down by a motorcar. When I came to myself and realized that I lay under a motorcar, my first thought was, I am dying. But it was only for a moment. Then came the thought very strongly, God is the only Life; God is my life. I heard a voice say, "Take her to the hospital;" but I said, "Take me home." A friend amongst the crowd knew where I was living. Suddenly I remembered the telephone number of a practitioner, who was called. So when I was brought home she met me, as did also a physician, for whom somebody had sent. The only thing in my body I could move was a toe; and it was very difficult for me to breathe. One thought was singing within me day and night, namely, God is the only Life, and that Life is mine. When the doctor came the next morning he was very much surprised, and said, "What has been going on here?" He came to see me three times a day, but only to observe, because somebody had told him that I was a Christian Scientist. For my family's sake I could not dismiss him. After a fortnight I suffered from pneumonia, with cramps. One morning very early I heard the doctor and the practitioner speaking about sending for my family. I could not open my eyes, nor speak, but I was conscious and knew that Life is immortal. So when the doctor came to my bedside I whispered, "I am not going to die." He said to the practitioner that because I had hope myself, he would wait an hour or two before sending for my family. They never did send for them. The whole time I felt a harmonious, restful sense, except when the nurse touched me or I had the cramps. Six or seven weeks after the accident I tried to leave my bed, and after about six weeks more I was as well as ever.

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