Testimony of Healing May 23, 1983 Issue

As a child and young person I suffered from rheumatic...

LOLA L. AHRENS

As a child and young person I suffered from rheumatic fever, off and on, until about the age of thirty. Then I became very weak and often was in a state of shock. It usually took me several weeks to recover, and I would go through this same ordeal every few months. Also I could not stay up longer than a few hours at a time. All this went on for several years, during which I needed much help doing my housework and caring for my young daughter.

One day I turned on the radio and heard a Christian Science program. The people on it spoke about healings they'd had through prayer. I told my husband I wanted to try Christian Science, but he so discouraged me that I dropped the whole matter. Then, about six months later, I again listened to this program on the radio. Again I wanted to try Science, and again my husband discouraged me. But this time I decided to send away for a copy of the book mentioned on the program—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

When the book arrived, I started to study it. Two weeks later I went to see a Christian Science practitioner. She asked me to study the answer to the question "What is man?" in Science and Health. Part of it reads (p. 475): "Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas...." This I studied every day for quite some time. Gradually my condition improved until complete healing was evident.

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