At one period I was ill with symptoms of what appeared to be...

Charlotte Kroemer

At one period I was ill with symptoms of what appeared to be tuberculosis. I lost a considerable amount of weight during this time. I believed that my work load was too heavy, and I felt very miserable. I had treatment from Christian Science practitioners at different times, for which I was very grateful. Many days when I felt discouraged I would remember the wonderful healings I had experienced through this religion at the beginning of my study of Christian Science—which I have previously related in a testimony in this periodical—and each time I again would find the strength to go on.

I endeavored to gain a better understanding, not that there was a state of illness to be healed, but that the symptoms of illness in reality had never existed, because, as Christian Science teaches, man is always the perfect idea of perfect God. I studied many passages in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy concerning man. In doing so, the following passage particularly attracted my attention (p. 369): "In proportion as matter loses to human sense all entity as man, in that proportion does man become its master." I reminded myself of this passage many times until it became clear to me that the real man—and there is no other, no matter how it may appear to erroneous sense—has never been touched by a claim of illness, since he resides, unhurt and intact, in God. I learned to recognize myself as this man. A great joy came over me when I realized that I was healed. Many years have gone by and the healing has remained permanent.

Through this experience I have learned to become more steadfast in the truth and to depend more on divine Mind for the qualities necessary to perform my daily work, such as intelligence, perception, patience, unselfishness, and to give up negative qualities, such as a false sense of responsibility, doubt, impatience. I understood better what Jesus meant when he said (John 5:19): "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." I learned to understand more clearly that God is expressing Himself, that this is evidenced through divine reflection and takes place effortlessly, and that no burden is imposed on man as His reflection.

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