Testimonies of Healing
Some weeks since, in lighting a small stove filled with wood alcohol, it exploded with a loud noise, throwing the flames over my face, into my hair, and on one wrist, I fell unconscious. My husband immediately ran to me and put out the flames.
" For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. " The above quotation from Paul's letter to the Corinthians, comes to my thought every time I visit the sick in the thickly populated Hebrew district of the lower East Side.
Four years ago I was healed by Christian Science. I suffered "for five years from rheumatism and all hope for cure had been given up.
Before taking up Science and Health to read, I was a chronic sufferer from catarrh. I had consulted several physicians and in my case they all agreed that change of climate and nothing else would relieve me.
A year ago now, my husband and myself were perfectly hopeless,—broken in fortune and health, old age coming on, and deserted by friends, my husband with only now and then a day's work, our main support what little money I could make selling home-made candy. Surely no dungeon was ever darker, or two people more unhappy.
" Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. " The truth of these words from Israel's sweet psalmist was revealed to me in all their beauty and sublimity when, five years ago, I caught the sweet strain in my innermost soul, and was thereby enabled to break the tends of earth asunder, after long years of suffering.
I was recently called to attend a case which the regular physician had given up, the patient having remarked that she would like to try Christian Science. The physician said he had read some in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Rev.
Some years ago I went into a cottage to see a young married woman whom I had known from her childhood. I found her lying huddled on the floor, crying as if her heart would break, while her baby, her only boy, lay on a sofa by her, looking as if he were dying.
Last summer, when one of our little sons was stricken with typhoid fever in a severe form, help was asked and in one week's time after the disease seemed to develop, every symptom was broken, the apparent stupor being the last to yield. The cloud was dispelled by the power of God, proving that the "Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world" was present all the time although we did not see it with our mortal eyes.
When I first came into Christian Science I had been an invalid for many years. One ankle was sprained, from which I suffered untold agony for five years.