Testimony of Healing July 10, 1943 Issue

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.