Testimony of Healing August 13, 1960 Issue

I took up nursing as a profession...

Gladys Ethel Schaefer

I took up nursing as a profession and soon after graduation from nursing school witnessed a remarkable healing of tuberculosis through Christian Science treatment. I was much impressed by this healing; but thinking that I had to earn my living as a nurse, I continued in that occupation for fourteen years, often thinking that when I no longer had to earn my living by nursing, I would look into Christian Science. During this time I bought and read the Sentinel, and I enjoyed especially the testimonies of healing contained in it.

I had many physical problems; one in particular was that of rheumatism from which I had suffered since childhood. That this condition was purely mental and dispositional was proved when a Christian Science practitioner asked me to study a passage from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. It reads (p. 242); "Self-love is more opaque than a solid body. In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error, —self-will, self-justification, and self-love,—which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death."

After I had studied this and the first four chapters of the book of Proverbs for some time, I became humble and willing to give up self-centered thoughts and to claim my true being. Obviously the rheumatism had to go with the erroneous thinking.

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