Testimony of Healing July 23, 1949 Issue

Knew there was "a better way." Healed, in Science, of cancer

Della Randall Woelfel

At a time when the brightest light to me seemed the blackest night, Christian Science was presented to me. I had suffered for years from stomach trouble and had tried a great many physicians, but with no cure. The last one I had, told me I was suffering from cancer and he could give me treatments that would either kill or cure me. He thought they would cure. I agreed to take the treatments, for I was so discouraged I did not care what happened to me.

The night before I was to start treatment, I cried to God to help me to do what was right. I prayed half the night, asking God to tell me if this was the right thing to do. All at once it seemed as though a voice said to me: "No, no. There is a better way to be healed." I did not know what the way was, but I was willing to leave it with God. In the morning I telephoned the doctor and told him I was not going to take the treatments.

In a short time we moved to another part of the city, and when talking to my nearest neighbor, I learned that she was a Christian Scientist. As I was telling her one day about my ills, she said to me, "Why don't you try Christian Science?" I asked her what that was, as I knew nothing of this Science. She told me how her son had been healed of pneumonia when the doctor had said he could do no more for him. I told her I would try anything. In a few days a practitioner came to her house, and she sent her to see me. She gave me a Christian Science Quarterly and a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and told me how to read the Lesson-Sermon, which I did.

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