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.

Most of those who read this will know the uplift, the strength, the hope that I received at that visit. After having treatment for several months I was permanently healed. Since then I have had many healings, and twice my life here has been prolonged through obedience to the voice of Truth.

My parents lived to see many proofs of this truth and to develop a kindly tolerance.

When my father passed on, an ailment came to me which, with a constant issue of blood, indicated some serious condition. I at first attributed it to the loss of our dear one. Treatment was begun, but results were slow. At times I threatened hopelessly to turn to materia medica, and then my husband would remind me of the many times Truth had healed me, and through his encouragement I continued. Over a year passed with little change, although I retained my strength and was active.

Then came the exposition in San Francisco, to which my husband wanted to go. Although he would not go without me, I was afraid to make the trip with such an ailment. The practitioner advised me to go, assuring me that I could not leave God, no matter where I went. Before we reached our destination the trouble disappeared never to return, and we arrived with joy and thanksgiving.

Space will not permit me to tell all that I would, but this will indicate in a measure my gratitude to God for Christian Science and its beloved Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy.—(Mrs.) Fannie Corbett Junge, Oak Park, Illinois.

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