Testimonies of Healing
By the glorious light and understanding of Truth, as revealed to me through Christian Science, that "God is all, and there is none beside Him," I have been raised from death unto life. " Suffering intensely from tumor, my physicians told me my only chance was in a surgical operation, and I was taken to the hospital for that purpose.
Just after my class study a child, attempting to follow me upstairs, fell, struck his lip cutting it badly. His mother, grandmother, and sister, set about in the usual way to take care of him, but had only bathed the wound with water assuring themselves that it was cut clear through, when I reached the spot; his mother handed him over to me; he ceased crying at once, soon fell asleep in my arms, and was healed with the one treatment.
A short time ago I wrote to the Publisher of the Journal for the addresses of some who had been healed of the claim of "alcoholism. " I wrote, hoping to find help for a friend, and received my answer before the letter came urging that a copy of Science and Health be procured for him, as I was strongly impressed with that very thought while reading that Book.
What a glorious day this has been. I had some errands this morning that took me out, and to the Dispensary.
I am so thankful for the light that illumines the Bible through Science And Health. I have been a church member for more than thirty years, and tried to live a Christian life, but the light seemed very dim.
Before I was healed of many infirmities, of twenty years standing, my eyesight began to fail me, in belief. I have been able to demonstrate over this seeming, in a great degree.
I take great comfort in reading SCIENCE AND HEALTH, and will cling firmly to the light I have, knowing more will be given me. While in Salt Lake City I met a lady at the hotel who had been an invalid all her life.
A friend called one day with her arm in bandages, and in a sling. She began to tell of the accident that caused a dislocated wrist.
I received a telegram from a city eighty-five miles distant, containing these two words, "Come to-morrow. " I knew not who had a belief, or what the belief was, but this I did know that "God is All, and there is none beside Him.
A gentleman, — a travelling salesman from one of our large cities,— with whom Christian Science is the main topic of conversation, when not engaged in selling goods, being on quite intimate terms with one of his customers in a small town, introduced the subject of Christian Science, endeavoring to give him some idea of what it is; giving as proof some cases of healing; not knowing, at that time, that the merchant had an invalid son and daughter, and a friend with an invalid wife. The subject was entirely new to him.