Testimony of Healing June 27, 1994 Issue

When I was between the ages of six and eight, I attended a...

Beatrice Muehlemeyer

When I was between the ages of six and eight, I attended a Christian Science Sunday School. As a teenager I occasionally attended or a lecture. Christian Science wasn't discussed in our home, and we didn't read the Lesson. I started smoking and drinking—I was seeking something, but didn't know what.

When I was about thirty, something was not right with my body, though I could not define just what the trouble was. I had been sickly all my life. One night I reached out to God, and gradually remembered "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health and the Lord's Prayer. I had learned these in Sunday School, and I clung to them for several hours. That night I was actually healed of drinking. Although I had been on the verge of alcoholism, my desire for alcohol was permanently gone.

Doctors told me my body was rejecting medicine that had been prescribed for my illness. I stopped taking it, and told my husband I wanted Christian Science treatment, which was all right with him. I called a practitioner on a Saturday and she began to pray for me. I also began to read Science and Health.

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