Testimony of Healing February 15, 1947 Issue

Although Christian Science was...

Helen K. Fries

Although Christian Science was not unknown to me, my grandmother having been interested in it for many years, I knew practically nothing about its teachings until I began to study it about ten years ago. At that time my husband and I became acquainted with some students of this Science, and when I was offered The Christian Science Journal and the Sentinel to read, I accepted them out of courtesy. I know now that that was the turning point in my life. As I read these periodicals, I had a great desire to know more about Christian Science, and a few months later a relative lent me the textbook, Science and Health.

At that time I was under the care of a physician for a severe gall bladder condition which had troubled me for over three years, and for which I was taking several different kinds of medicine. Yet when I began the study of Christian Science it was not with the desire to be healed of anything. I was satisfied to read the textbook, and was so absorbed in it that I could scarcely put it down or think of anything else. The statements of truth which I read so filled my consciousness that I forgot to take my medicine, nor have I taken medicine for any other trouble since then. I was healed completely of both the gall bladder trouble and the use of medicine. It was some time, however, before I recognized the latter healing.

Shortly after this I suffered an attack of quinsy, and for the first time I asked help from a practitioner. I was taken to see her, and despite the fact that I was very weak, suffering from a fever, and could not speak, I accepted her invitation to attend a Christian Science lecture that afternoon. When I returned home from the lecture I seemed much worse, and lost consciousness for a time. When I came to, however, all pain and fever were gone, and in a few days every symptom of the trouble had disappeared. There has never been any return of this difficulty, although previously I had had at least one attack each year which confined me to bed for several days.

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