We witnessed our first healing...

Julia J. Edner

We witnessed our first healing in Christian Science over twenty years ago. Our eldest son, then an infant, had been suffering from pneumonia and was given up by the family physician. We turned to Christian Science, and he was very quickly healed.

In our family of three sons God has been our only physician, and I have seen Christian Science, the law of God, heal many severe illnesses. Many so-called children's diseases were overcome quickly. One was the healing of scarlet fever, in which all symptoms completely disappeared in less than twenty-four hours after we wired a practitioner some two hundred miles distant for help.

Another experience stands out to me as proof of the availability of Christian Science. One morning I hurried up to the attic to take down the window curtains to get them washed, and as I ran from one side of the room to the other I struck a low rafter, hitting my head with such force that I was knocked to the floor. The next thing I knew I was repeating "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 468). The Lesson-Sermon for that week in the Christian Science Quarterly was, "God the Preserver of Man," in which was found this reference from Science and Health (p. 530): "In divine Science, man is sustained by God, the divine Principle of being." I held to these truths until I caught some glimpse of man as the idea of God, and I was then freed from all sense of pain and inconvenience. I went on about my work and thought nothing more of it until next morning, when I could hardly turn my head. But while reading the Lesson again, I realized that only that which we accept in thought as real can be experienced. From then on I was completely free, and rejoiced in the knowledge of a religion so practical that it could be applied to any situation.

At another time we were in a car that skidded over an embankment and turned completely upside down. By realizing God's presence and knowing there are no accidents in Mind, we were scarcely injured, and were able to resume the journey of two hundred miles that day.

Christian Science has helped me to adapt myself to a new world, and I found great comfort in the twenty-third Psalm when passing through the darkest hours of my human experience when a loved one passed on. I was divinely sustained and comforted, and found my hand in God's leading me into a more spiritual understanding of home.

When my youngest son and I were led to leave our home in the West and go to a distant city, we did not understand why at the time, but through obedience we had wonderful proof of divine guidance and found a new home, not only blessing ourselves but meeting the needs of another.

Among the other blessings which Christian Science has brought me are membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church and the privilege of taking part in the activities of the latter; also the joyous experience of class instruction with a consecrated teacher.

No wonder my heart overflows with gratitude to our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for her spiritual perception of the Bible and her selfless service in giving to the world her textbook and other writings, for through them I have begun to learn about God, who is Life and Love.—(Mrs.) Julia J. Edner, Chicago, Illinois.

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