Testimony of Healing December 17, 1949 Issue

Years before my introduction to...

Caroline Weidling

Years before my introduction to Christian Science, all my faith in and adherence to the prevailing views of Christianity had been completely shaken by one who called himself an infidel, who asked me how I could profess to love God, when God sent sickness and death to His creation to punish them. I realized that some discrepancy existed, but had no solution until Mrs. Eddy's wonderful discovery of the true Science of being was presented to me. In one good talk with a clear-thinking Christian Scientist, I knew that Mrs. Eddy had found the truth. The light broke, and my whole life was changed by this new and true viewpoint. I could now see that God knew nothing of sin, disease, or death, and that they were wholly unreal, having no cause because they did not proceed from the great and only cause, which is God. In consequence of this great enlightenment, fears and doubts of all sorts disappeared, and joy and confidence filled my consciousness.

At the time of my first reading of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, I was confined to bed with a severe cough. After several days of reading Science and Health, I felt strong and free, and the cough disappeared. I arose and dressed myself, healed by my first perusal of this wonderful book.

Soon after this we moved from our home in Ohio to a very thinly populated part of southern Florida, where no practitioner of Christian Science was readily available for help. There were no near neighbors. When we left Ohio an epidemic of infantile paralysis was in evidence, and soon after our arrival in Florida, one of our children manifested all the symptoms of the disease. For three days he could not move or eat, and he was entirely helpless.

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