Lung trouble and abscess overcome in Science

Amy R. Sangar

I first heard of Christian Science in 1917 when I met a young student of this Science who had recently come to live in the village where I was working as the district nurse. During our first meeting I made an unkind criticism of one of the villagers, to which she replied that Christian Science teaches that an imperfect mortal is not the real man. This arrested my attention, and I questioned her. She answered by reading to me from the textbook, Science and Health by our Leader, Mrs. Eddy. She had not been reading to me for long before I asked her to lend me the book.

For some years previously I had been feeling dissatisfied with what I had learned of religion, my father being a stanch believer in Calvinism. I could not accept this doctrine and would read the Bible to find out how he came by such a theory, as well as any book on theology that came my way.

My new friend introduced me to the nearest Christian Science Reading Room and later to the church. I borrowed Science and Health and found it more satisfying than any book I had ever read. The chapter entitled "Physiology" answered some questions I had asked myself when studying that subject as a young hospital probationer, and I desired to learn more of this Science which held out so much promise of healing those cases considered incurable. I bought my own copy of the textbook, continued to borrow other works by Mrs. Eddy, and began to attend church services.

In the spring of 1918, while on my holiday, I became ill with an axillary abscess which led to two months in a hospital followed by some weeks at a holiday home in Wales, which belonged to the institute for which I was working. I was under medical care and content to be so until a doctor gave a diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in its early stages, in addition to the other trouble, and suggested that I go to a sanitarium. This awakened me! I decided to try Christian Science. The doctor was willing that I should join my parents, who were living on the southeast coast of England. I was a stranger in the town, and as none of my family knew of the diagnosis, I felt I had the opportunity of a fresh start. I accepted the help that was offered to me by a Christian Science practitioner, and a wonderful time followed.

I had resigned my post as district nurse; so now the question of supply had to be met, also the problem of human relationship, for, since I had left home seventeen years before, there was really no place for me in the home of my parents.

The abscess was still discharging, and I was troubled with boils, but I was gaining strength, and the practitioner soon wrote to me that she felt I could do without further help from her. She counseled me to study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly daily, because that was as important to me as my material food.

At this point it was necessary for me to find work, and nursing being my one talent, I took the human footsteps that were right for my state of development at that time, and work came in. The teaching found in Matthew 6:26–34 and Mrs. Eddy's words in Science and Health (p. 494), "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need," were a great help to me, and I was proving her statement to be true.

My first task was a light one, but later the work was heavy, entailing constant lifting. Then it was not easy to forget my arm, but I discarded the bandage and all dressings, and at the end of the week the wound had healed, and there has been no trouble from it since. There was no further trouble from the boils, nor was there any development of lung trouble.

The present of a substantial cheque from the village where I had been working made it possible for me to have my own rooms not too far from my parents, which was a happy solution to what seemed to be a difficult problem and proved to be a benefit to all concerned. In course of time I severed my connection with medical nursing and was enabled to do Science nursing, also to have class instruction, for which I shall always be grateful.

My healing, which took place thirty years ago, has been permanent. Since then Christian Science has been my only reliance, and my health has been good. I am very grateful for all that Christian Science is teaching me and grateful to our dear Leader for giving this truth to the world.—(Miss) Amy R. Sangar, Seaford, Sussex, England.

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