Testimony of Healing August 30, 1941 Issue

Comparing the years in which I have been consistently...

Agnes Osgood Applin

Comparing the years in which I have been consistently studying and practicing the teachings of Christian Science, with the years when I was without it, is cause for the deep sense of gratitude and love I feel for our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who gave this Science to mankind.

As a child and through young womanhood it was said I grew too fast and was anemic. I had severe sick headache often, biliousness, chronic constipation, severe palpitation of the heart, nervous indigestion, and took cold easily. I took medicine every day for years and was under a doctor's care much of the time. Still these conditions continued. I was afraid to eat many simple foods, for the doctor had said they caused the suffering.

When my daughter was a small child she was taken ill in the night and called to my mother, who was then a beginner in the study of Christian Science. My mother recognized the symptoms of a disease with which my sister had passed on several years before. She was afraid to call us or a doctor, so she called a Christian Science practitioner, and told us in the morning what she had done. We decided to continue with the practitioner. The first symptoms disappeared after a few days, but serious complications began to develop. Our fears and the mental picture of the past experience kept our thought so confused that the practitioner decided to remain through the night. She insisted that we all go to bed, and promised to call us if it was necessary. I had no understanding of Christian Science at that time, but I read Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy almost constantly, not daring to go to sleep, and I seemed unable to think intelligently. The following morning the practitioner took a definite stand and very lovingly told me that the work had been done, but we must make a decision. If any of us felt we should like to call a physician we were at liberty to do so, and she would lovingly give up the case. We must decide and let her know. My husband and my mother and I talked it over, and I shall never forget the sense of peace which came with our decision to trust God and work this problem out with Christian Science. This stand broke the mesmerism of fear and doubt. The child began to improve almost immediately, and soon was completely healed. This experience, as I recall, covered about a month.

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