Testimony of Healing September 22, 1945 Issue

My first consciousness of God...

Wilhelmine Mordhorst

My first consciousness of God came from the motto "God is Love," which hung in a room where I visited as a little child. Love was something beautiful which I had experienced in my family relationships. Therefore it was a severe shock to me when I was told that God had struck down one of my playmates, causing great suffering and sorrow to many people. I refused to accept this, and thus began a long period of seeking and questioning. I read many books and attended many churches, finding good in all of them, but it was not until I read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, that I knew I had found the truth—that God is Love indeed. My questions were answered and I quickly realized that God knows nothing of accident, death, or sorrow, and that we experience these things only in so far as we admit them into our thinking.

I began my study of Christian Science about sixteen years ago when, after several operations, I was informed that I had fibroid tumors and needed further surgery. When additional complications developed, I visited a Christian Science practitioner and asked for treatment. I shall always remember the loving reassurance of that interview. I left the office completely healed of phlebitis, which had been troubling me for some time.

From that moment, although there have been periods of discouragement, I have never doubted the efficacy of Christian Science to heal, when properly understood and applied. Healing of the tumors came more slowly. I had been trained in medical nursing, and had much to unlearn and many old beliefs to discard. But the healing was gradually accomplished and there has been no recurrence of this difficulty.

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