Testimony of Healing December 1, 1945 Issue

In these days of the age-old conflict...

Gertrude E. Shriver

In these days of the age-old conflict between the so-called forces of personal domination and the recognition and proof of the Christ-healing, I give my testimony of healing in Christian Science, hoping that it will encourage those who are seeking to be loosed from personal domination and human bondage.

Doctors gave me up to die of a dread disease when I was a very young girl. One doctor said that it was possible for me to live only if I would stop worrying. I felt that I was being held in bondage, because I was not allowed to think for myself. My worry began when my father would not let me go to college. I asked him for money to go to another city, where I might obtain employment and work my way through college, but he refused.

I continued to seek a way to release myself from bondage. I presented my problem to a neighbor who was a Quaker, and asked him if it would be right for me to leave home. His reply was, "If it is right for thee to leave thy father, thee will succeed; God will guide thee; but if it is not right, then thee can return to thy father again." The man was blind, so I read to him for some months and earned sufficient money to go to another city, where I obtained a position teaching children in a Christian Science home. They employed me because they saw that I needed help. The family expressed so much consideration and kindness that I was encouraged to stay on with them.

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