Testimony of Healing January 3, 1976 ISSUE

When I began reading the textbook, Science and Health by...

Pauline Klopfenstein

When I began reading the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, so chronic and acute was my case that my only hope was to bear my lot in life a little better. I had been troubled with acne and anemia over a period of fifteen years.

At this time my roommate was sick with a fever. To comfort her I placed cold wet cloths on her head, then settled down to read the textbook. But no sooner did I start to read than she would call out for another cloth. Seeing I was getting nowhere with the book or the cloth, I decided that it must be one or the other. With determination to comprehend, I pursued the reading prayerfully. I don't remember now the passages I read, but the light of divine Truth entered my consciousness and I was satisfied. Simultaneously my friend called out, "I feel all right." The fever was gone.

Because of the regulations of the club where we lived, it was compulsory for her to have a doctor or go to a hospital. She decided on a doctor. The doctor said, "You are all right now, but you have had the measles."

This and other convincing and satisfying proofs of the healing power of God, Truth, led me to stay unswervingly with Christian Science. Many hardships have been overcome through the years, not easily, but with persistent effort the results were gratifying. One by one prayers have been answered, and many times the prayer has been to conform to the conditions set forth in this Bible promise (Mai. 3:10 ): "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."

Although the medical practitioners had given up my cases of anemia and of acne, these conditions were quickly healed by regular study of the Bible together with Science and Health in the Christian Science Quarterly Lesson-Sermons.

In following the Master, Christ Jesus the Way-shower, we find that "if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new" (II Cor. 5:17 ). Old errors and false beliefs fade away as we glimpse and hold to the truth concerning the real man, the spiritual man of God's creating. Mrs. Eddy puts it this way in the textbook (p. 24 ): "He to whom 'the arm of the Lord' is revealed will believe our report, and rise into newness of life with regeneration."

Two testimonies of mine were published in the Sentinel—one on harmony and finances, the other on obedience in following the Christ, Truth. Mrs. Eddy writes (ibid., p. vii): "Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is Life eternal."

My greatest blessing and accomplishment in life is membership in The Mother Church, followed by active and continuous committee work in a branch church. Class instruction with a devoted teacher fortifies me beyond measure, for which I am very grateful.

(Miss) Pauline Klopfenstein
Los Angeles, California

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