Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.

Within two years, I have been made a new creature, in that the severe coughs and lung troubles to which I was in bondage for many years have been overcome; also the great fear I had of going out in cold and rainy weather, especially of facing the east winds, against which my physician always warned me. Such laws laid down for me, as my present understanding teaches, were man-made laws, which are null and void, God's law being the only law, eternal and indestructible.

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.

I am unable to speak of any demonstration in physical healing, but I can say that through a slight understanding of this great Truth, clouds of deepest sorrow have been lifted and the glorious light of Love and Truth has led me "beside the still waters. " All day long I find I can make Christian Science of practical value, in knowing how to overcome error with Good, and so bring out the ever-presence of Divine Love.

The following letter was recently received from my father, and by way of explanation, that it may be better understood and appreciated, I will say that I never knew of his having read a line in the Bible, nor do I remember of his having ever attended church prior to the time Science was presented to him. The following is the letter referred to:— "This is to let you know we are all well, thank God.

One of the teachings of Christian Science is, that a good part of the unpleasant things that seemingly come into our life's experience—the things that grate and jar our sensibilities, that offend our pride and dignity, that stir within us a sense of injustice done and injury sustained, that perhaps provoke our hot criticism and condemnation—are, after all, often simply the result of our own erroneous mental perception, a faulty reflection on an imperfect mental surface. I know from bitter personal experience that this is one of the hardest things to learn, and one that we are most reluctant to admit as true.

I take this opportunity to express, in a measure, my gratitude for "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " I commenced the study of this book about four years ago.