Testimony of Healing July 24, 1948 Issue

Hunger and all its phases, its...

Mabel Fleck

Hunger and all its phases, its causes, and the ways of alleviating it are constantly being brought to our attention. Christian Science brought the healing of such a condition in my experience over thirty years ago. I was not starving from the lack of food, but because of a severe case of neuralgia in my face, which made it almost impossible for me to eat. In desperation I decided to eat if it killed me. The attempt did cause me to lose consciousness. Later my cousin informed me, "At three o'clock you are going to see a Christian Science practitioner." He had only recently met this practitioner at a friend's house, but he attributed the overcoming of a chronic case of constipation to the impression her remarks had made on him.

We visited her that afternoon, and the love and understanding she expressed filled my consciousness with the assurance that I could eat, not because I had learned why, but because I had complete faith that she knew why I could. That evening I ate my first meal in many months. The fear of death and the belief of pain attached to eating were instantly healed, but many of the subtle fears connected with this disease, which were of long standing, required another three months to be completely eliminated from my consciousness.

During the First World War, I had influenza and experienced serious aftereffects. At the most critical stage I decided that I would not enter a sanitarium, but would go to some place where no one knew me and the people would not be interested in my appearance or my manner of working out my salvation. The change took me to the city in which the practitioner who had first helped me was then living. She came to see me, but before I could ask her to help me, she was lovingly pointing out how I should go about helping myself. Realizing that it was entirely up to me to get out of the muddle I was in, I humbly began studying along the lines she had pointed out. I saw that I had never been truly grateful for my first instantaneous healing; rather had I been living in the reflected happiness and improved health that had followed it. The working out of this problem increased my strength and my reliance on God and proved that God is ever present and available at the instant we call upon Him.

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