Testimony of Healing April 7, 1973 Issue

When I came to myself some fifteen years ago in a state mental...

Jo Ann Clinefelter with contributions from Kenneth W. Clinefelter

When I came to myself some fifteen years ago in a state mental institution, some of the truth taught me in my years in a Christian Science Sunday School sustained me. I do not recall any specific praying, but I do recall the words "Christian Science" came to me. I searched the hospital library for healing articles and the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, but I found only derogatory statements, which confused me.

However, when I reported to the doctor on the case that I had not been taking the required medication, she inquired how I got along. Upon being assured I was fine, she requested I comply with the rules and the dosage would be reduced and eliminated. Within one week I was off medication. I found I had been placed in the hospital following a severe postpartum depression and nervous breakdown. The first awakening was a result of prayer in Christian Science, and I used the truth I did understand.

Within another six weeks I was home on a conditional release to my husband, a sincere student of Christian Science. There I learned that for some time, at the request of my husband, a Christian Science practitioner had been faithfully helping us through prayer, and that when I seemed to relapse, he again called the practitioner for help. From that time on progress was decided. Healing came. My father, who is not a Christian Scientist, said, "We know God healed you." I prayed as in Jeremiah (17:14): "Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise." My memory and mental faculties were restored.

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