Testimony of Healing August 18, 1945 Issue

Gratitude for the help received...

Mary Lucile Noehring

Gratitude for the help received from the many inspiring testimonies published in our periodicals prompts me to send mine.

At the age of twelve years I was healed of an acute attack of appendicitis by the help of an aunt who was a new student of Christian Science. We lived in the country, and the physician called by my parents had told them that in a few hours he would return to take me to the nearest hospital, twenty miles away. My mother, in her fear of an operation, telephoned to the aunt to ask for moral support. In a short time my condition improved so much that the physician decided the operation was unnecessary. Although I did not realize it, the seed of Truth was sown in that experience.

Many years later I came to Chicago to study music and was offered a home with relatives who were constantly consulting physicians and were deeply interested in all branches of materia medica. I had been with them less than two months when they decided that at their expense I should have my tonsils removed, to promote progress in vocal training. However, the operation did not prove beneficial; on the contrary, I completely lost my voice. For six weeks I was subjected to various medical treatments by the best throat specialists in the city, but I "was nothing bettered," and like the woman of whom we read in Mark's Gospel (5:26), "rather grew worse."

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