Testimony of Healing January 3, 1942 ISSUE

Christian Science came into our...

Cora Fern Sandahl

Christian Science came into our home when I was a small child, and I had the privilege of attending Sunday school. Many definitions from the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, memorized at that time, have never been forgotten, and they have often helped me.

During my high school days, I was healed of what was called quick consumption. One night I seemed unable to breathe, and my family did not think I could last through the night. But a telegram had been sent to a practitioner in Omaha, and when morning came I was very much improved. In less than a month I had gained weight and improved in appearance, in fact, was almost normal. There has never been any return of this condition. For many years I have enjoyed good health, and have relied radically on Truth. I have been healed of ptomaine poisoning; a badly sprained ankle; sick headaches; a nervous breakdown, seemingly caused by my holding an erroneous opinion of someone; and a deep sorrow, due to the loss of home and things held most dear. Through these experiences I have gained a higher sense of what constitutes happiness and my relationship to God. Some of these healings have been the result of my own work, and some have come through the help of others.

More recently, I have been freed from discouragement, apathy, and fear, resulting in a great sense of exhaustion and disinclination to make any exertion, which was wholly foreign to my natural joyous sense of activity. This condition presented itself a number of times, and a great deal of help from a practitioner was needed to help me rise above the mesmeric belief in a selfhood apart from God. Counting my daily blessings, expressing gratitude to God, and realizing, as Hymn No. 64 from the Christian Science Hymnal says, that "the loveliness of Love is all around," have brought me freedom.

One argument of this error was loneliness, and an article in one of our periodicals was most helpful. It brought out the fact that God is never absent, that His "joy-bringing, comforting, satisfying ideas are ever present," and so man is never alone. And though the material conditions are the same, I have absolutely no sense of loneliness.

I am grateful for our literature, for the church services, lectures, Reading Rooms, and the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly; also for the practitioners and workers everywhere; and to our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for her unselfed labor for mankind.—(Mrs.) Cora Fern Sandahl, Pueblo, Colorado.

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