Testimony of Healing October 31, 1953 Issue

When I was a child, my parents...

Gertrude M. Springer

When I was a child, my parents frequently called a friend who was a Christian Scientist for help at times of sickness in the family, and I saw many quick healings. When my older sister had suffered for two days from a nasal hemorrhage, which medical means had failed to stop, my mother called this friend. The bleeding stopped almost immediately, and in twenty minutes my sister arose, healed. Grateful for this healing, she began an earnest study of Christian Science. Through her understanding she has been able to help others in the family, including me.

After a year of training as a medical nurse in a large hospital, I became very much confused about God, man, and life. I discontinued the medical training and spent many years seeking enlightenment through study of religious writings. When a growth became evident on my breast, a great fear of death came over me.

After attending a Sunday service in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I went to a practitioner for help. She gave me a Christian Science Quarterly, and I began the daily study of the Lesson-Sermons in it, having procured the Bible and also Science and Health by our Leader, Mrs. Eddy. At first I could not understand the lessons; so I prayed each day before I opened my books (Ps. 119:18), "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law."

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