Testimony of Healing May 6, 1944 Issue

Twenty years ago I was taken...

Bertha M. Kuikman

Twenty years ago I was taken very ill and a physician was called. Diagnosis disclosed diphtheria and double pneumonia, resulting in a congestion of all the organs of the body. Two weeks of medical treatment and consultations with several physicians failed to help me. The suffering grew so intense that the physicians said there was little if any hope for my recovery. Death seemed the only way of relief.

From early childhood Christian Science had held a very respected place in my thinking, because of a loved one who studied and practiced its teachings. However, my marriage to a physician and close association with materia medica work for several years disconnected completely all contact with Science and Christian Scientists.

"Man's extremity is God's opportunity," and in my hour of need friends who were students of Christian Science were asked to call a practitioner, which they did, and then they came to our home. When they arrived I was no longer conscious, and this report was relayed to the practitioner, who asked them to declare continuously, "God is Life," to quiet their own fear and the fear of the family, while she treated the case mentally. After about half an hour, I heard voices calling, as it seemed, from a long distance, saying, "God is your Life." The voices grew nearer and nearer until I awakened to find my friends sitting by me declaring this statement. Pain and discomfort were gone, and I soon fell peacefully asleep—the first sleep in several weeks.

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