Testimony of Healing June 8, 1974 Issue

Over fifty years ago a friend visited our home and brought us...

Bertha E. Lindgren with contributions from Patricia Lindgren Kurtz

Over fifty years ago a friend visited our home and brought us some Christian Science literature. He spoke in glowing terms of the healings he and his family had witnessed. I felt I had no time to read the periodicals because I had two small boys to care for. One morning when I arose, I was in great pain and could not stand, so I went to bed again. My husband called the family doctor, who told him I needed an immediate operation and he would come for me the next day to take me to the hospital.

As I lay in bed that day, I read the text of the Christian Science lecture our friend had brought us. I do not know how many times I read it, but when the doctor called for me the next morning, I met him at the door a well person. I did not know at that time I was to have another child and that the fetus was developing in the fallopian tube. The truth of God's love and care that I found in the lecture corrected that misplacement and the child was born normally in due time.

Later, while studying Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, I came across this statement (p. 506): "Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear." That sentence revealed to me what had taken place in that beautiful healing. God's will for the child was life, and His will for me that I embrace Christian Science.

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