Testimony of Healing February 3, 1945 Issue

The many helpful testimonies...

Werner Sigfrid Nelson

The many helpful testimonies given in the periodicals impel me to express my gratitude for the encouragement and support I have received through the loving assistance of Christian Science practitioners and from my daily study of the Lesson-Sermon.

From boyhood I was confronted with sickness, failure, and fear about the future. After leaving my native land of Sweden, I was operated on in the United States, but without apparent improvement in my condition. The woman with whom I was boarding at the time inquired whether or not I had tried Christian Science treatment. This was the first time I had ever heard of it, and I was rather skeptical when she tried to explain it to me. Willing to try anything, I went the next day to a Reading Room and borrowed "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, to find out more about Christian Science. I had not finished the first chapter before I realized that I had found the Comforter, and it was with a feeling of hopefulness and satisfaction that I closed the book late that night.

Although I had been reared in a creed which depicted God as stern and avenging, I had steadfastly refused to agree with the idea that some of us would go to a place of everlasting punishment. Therefore it was an inspiration to read on page 127 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy's comforting words, "Christian Science reveals God, not as the author of sin, sickness, and death, but as divine Principle, Supreme Being, Mind, exempt from all evil."

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