Testimonies of Healing
At midnight one Sabbath evening not long since, I was startled and awakened from an unpleasant dream. I hastily arose and going up-stairs found a member of the family in a collapsed condition.
I had a demonstration a few weeks ago that I wish to tell of, it meant so much to me. My husband has a place rented two or three miles from home, where sometimes he pastures his cows.
I do not know whether any one in the world has more reason to express gratitude for healing through Christian Science than I have. In the year 1894, I was taken very ill with chronic inflammation of the spinal cord, and suffered intensely for many weeks.
With a heart full of love and gratitude to God, and to our Leader, Rev. Mary Baker G.
About twelve years ago I first heard of Christian Science; members of my husband's family would frequently tell me about it and try to explain it to me. That the Comforter is ever-present was proved to me in the hour of need.
I shall never forget the joy I felt when the Bible and Science and Health were ordained as pastor for all Christian Science services. Perceiving the profound significance of the Lesson-Sermon as a healer, realizing, even as the explanatory note says, that it is "a sermon undivorced from truth, uncontaminated and unfettered by human hypotheses, and authorized by Christ," I began at once to use it.
I Should like to tell of a demonstration which was very convincing to me that there is but one Mind. About a year after I was healed and began the study of Christian Science it seemed best for me to take a city examination for teachers.
This testimony was accompanied by the following note. The enclosed is the testimony of a young girl in whom I am interested.
From my early childhood I was always ill. For weeks I lay in bed under the doctor's care.
When I turned to Christian Science I had been a sufferer for seventeen years, and for the last four years I had suffered intensely with several diseases,—lung trouble and heart trouble, etc. I was perfectly wretched.