Testimony of Healing June 25, 1949 Issue

Changed concept of God and healing of acute indigestion

Edith G. Gilbertson with contributions from Alice Ulvin Sonnesyn

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes (Church Manual, Art. VIII, Sect. 24): "Testimony in regard to the healing of the sick is highly important. More than a mere rehearsal of blessings, it scales the pinnacle of praise and illustrates the demonstration of Christ, 'who healeth all thy diseases' (Psalm 103:3)." I, like thousands of others, can never give praise enough to God for the healing power of Truth as taught in Christian Science.

At an early age I found myself seeking a different concept of God from what was being presented to me. I could not accept a concept of God as a personal deity seated upon a throne in the heavens, who afflicts and punishes His children. I did, however, feel a great sense of guilt and unhappiness in not having any faith. So when Christian Science was presented to me, all dissatisfaction left me, and I knew I had found the way.

I had always suffered from ill-health and was about to go to a hospital to have treatment for a fallen stomach and acute indigestion. One visit to a Christian Science practitioner healed me of those disorders. I never again touched any form of medicine or ever had any desire for it. I do not remember what the practitioner told me, except that I was to eat anything I wanted to. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes (p. 388), "The fact is, food does not affect the absolute Life of man, and this becomes self-evident, when we learn that God is our Life."

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