Testimony of Healing January 1, 1944 Issue

In the fullness of gratitude for...

Fannie Corbett Junge

In the fullness of gratitude for the goodness of God I offer my testimony to the healing power of Christian Science.

When a girl in my teens I met a practitioner while visiting a schoolmate. There I saw Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and it was kindly lent to me. It created a turmoil in my home. My parents read it, discussed it, and disapproved. I persisted in reading it throughout the summer, and felt that it was the truth. However, I was in a constant state of irritation from the opposition I encountered, and in a few months fell ill with a fever and nearly passed on. On recovering, I felt that if there were any truth in this teaching I should not have been taken ill. I foolishly concluded that I should have been created anew after reading the book, not realizing I had read it under adverse circumstances and without digesting it.

It was several years before I considered it again, though both my sisters and my closest friend had become interested and were demonstrating its teachings. Then I became afflicted with an eye condition that threatened blindness, and one day after leaving a specialist, one of several I had consulted, I called at my sister's home in a desperate, hopeless mood. On hearing the verdict, she said, "Don't you think it's time that you tried Christian Science?" When I assented, she turned to The Christian Science Journal and we found there was a practitioner directly across the park, to whom I immediately went.

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