Testimony of Healing April 28, 1980 Issue

While I was growing up, though my family did not fully understand...

VIRGINIA F. KUEMMIN

While I was growing up, though my family did not fully understand the power of God to heal, they regularly sent my sisters, brother, and me to the Christian Science Sunday School. For this I am most grateful. Gradually, during my teen years, I began to feel that perhaps there was some truth to what I was learning, and that perhaps God did heal.

My first clear proof that God's law is effective occurred when I was about seventeen. As a member of an organization, I had a specific office to perform. One day was especially busy and important, and my part in it was considerable. Just before I was to start, I became so ill that it looked as though I would be unable to continue.

Since this function was being held out of town, I had taken my copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy with me. Opening the book at random, I found this passage (p. 207): "There is but one primal cause. Therefore there can be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no reality in aught which does not proceed from this great and only cause." What a moving viewpoint! Since I had been studying chemistry in school and learning about cause and effect, this particular spiritual concept had meaning for me. It transformed my belief in sickness to a recognition of the divine Principle of health, and I was healed. I was able to accomplish all my duties with a freedom I had never before known. I feel that Science and Health had not opened at random, but that I was God-directed to the precise truth that would help me.