Before becoming acquainted with...

Nelly Rákóczy with contributions from Ilona Lázár

Before becoming acquainted with Christian Science, we experienced much suffering, many financial worries, physical problems, and sickness in our family. Then one day, through divine direction, I met a Christian Scientist, who spoke to me of this Science. I was happy to accept it all, for I felt that it was the Comforter which I had often asked God to give me.

When I began the daily study of the weekly Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, I was healed in a few days of insomnia, bronchopneumonia, and severe stomach trouble. Members of our family have also experienced beautiful healings. One day, while playing, my little niece received a violent blow on the hand which raised a swelling the size of a walnut. It persisted for months. Her father, who did not know Christian Science, sent her to a doctor. He, using a well-known method considered most effective by the medical faculty, cleaned out the swelling. However, it reappeared in a few days. The physician tried two more times to cope with the swelling, but without success. Then we turned to Christian Science for help. One morning, while reading the Lesson to my niece, I read the following passage from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 257): "Mind creates His own likeness in ideas, and the substance of an idea is very far from being the supposed substance of non-intelligent matter." Then, thought I, there is no matter! When next she looked at her hand, the swelling was gone. It never came back. This occurred over six years ago.

One night this same niece woke with a strong ringing and pain in her ears. While I read the Lesson-Sermon to her, the pain gradually left her, and a deep sense of gratitude for Christian Science, without which she would have been obliged to seek medical aid, took possession of her. What a sense of assurance comes from knowing that the real Physician is ever with us! Both of us were happy and grateful because we felt the presence of God and His Christ. By morning she had forgotten about the whole experience.

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