Testimony of Healing November 24, 1973 Issue

Christian Science truly is a way of life, and for the past nine...

Suzanne M. Stockfisch

Christian Science truly is a way of life, and for the past nine years it has increasingly blessed me and my family. Growing up in an area of the country where Christian Scientists are few in number, I really knew nothing about it until after I was married. My husband's aunt had experienced a wonderful healing through Christian Science, and it had made an indelible impression on my husband. I inwardly battled with feelings of resentment, prejudice, and misunderstanding of this religion, which seemed such a radical departure from my own convictions. However, after I began to read the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly each day, attend Christian Science church services, and even ventured to "try" this Science when I needed physical healing, the hostility melted away, and I joyously accepted it as the truth.

Since then I've been very grateful for the love of the Bible my former church experience engendered in me. The Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, has truly served as a "key" to the Scriptures, giving the spiritual interpretation of passages that had always been dear to me. In retrospect, although I wholeheartedly accepted Christian Science and depended entirely on it for healing, the process of giving up former concepts of theology and of medical laws and beliefs has been a slow process. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Mortal thought does not at once catch the higher meaning, and can do so only as thought is educated up to spiritual apprehension" (Science and Health, p. 349).

One day our little girl, then about three years old, became quite ill with a very high fever and complained of pains in her lower abdomen. We contacted a Christian Science practitioner for prayerful treatment. My husband had reluctantly left that afternoon on a business trip. During the evening the child still seemed listless and very feverish. Mrs. Eddy clearly reveals that fever is the effect of fear on the body, and also that the problem of a young child is met mainly through the parents' thought. I therefore endeavored to overcome the fear in my own thinking.

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