Testimony of Healing October 18, 1941 Issue

When Christian Science was first presented to me and I...

Frieda Friedrich

When Christian Science was first presented to me and I recognized what a wealth its teachings contained, I felt that I had only just begun to live my life aright.

At the time, I was suffering from consumption and hemorrhage of the lungs. The physicians could not help me, and they forbade me to do any strenuous work. This dismayed me, for I had a two-year-old child, and I did not want to leave her to the care of others. The fear of being harmed by my housework never left me. I dragged along in this state for almost two years. Once, when I was desperate, the nurse of our evangelical church advised me to read the Bible diligently and said that I would thus find peace. This I did quite often, but one evening I wept, and put it aside, for I could not understand it; much of it seemed contradictory to me. I prayed to God to give me the strength to be good, for even then I felt that only Love could free me from that terrible condition.

Shortly afterwards my husband rented a place for us at a summer resort. I realize now that he was wonderfully led to do this, for our landlady was a Christian Scientist. She received us lovingly and gave me a few copies of The Herald of Christian Science to read. This reading brought about such an improvement in my condition that I was soon able to go for long walks with my loved ones. The glorious truth that God is Love, and that He does not send us sickness, had healed me of fear. Later, after I had returned home, I again had to struggle to overcome fear of death. I fought "the good fight with all [my] might," rejected every erroneous suggestion, and prayed, in the words of Jacob, "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me." Then I went to sleep, and when I woke up I felt better than ever before. The completion of my healing took almost a year, but as I got rid of faults of disposition and relied more on the divine power, I became free.

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