Testimonies of Healing
Among the many beautiful demonstrations manifested, through Truth, in our Dispensary, are a few that I would like to share with others. A lady called one day, and said, "I don't know anything about Christian Science, but was advised to come here and talk with you.
The work here is progressing, notwithstanding the M. Ds.
It is with gratitude that I bear testimony to the power of Truth, over the darkness of human belief. I had been a sufferer all my life, from a belief of hereditary consumption, and numerous other diseases.
A patient , who had been healed of numerous beliefs, and whose husband—during her period of treatments—had been freed from a lifelong claim of rupture, was called to a not distant city, by a telegram from the attending physician, saying, "Your mother has Pneumonia, and cannot live. Come at once.
The question is often asked, "Why are not the demonstrations in Christian Science sooner realized?" Is it from lack of the consciousness of Love which makes every one asking a scientist for help, a brother, a sister? Only as we have the right idea of Love, can the brotherhood of man unfold to us. This is the demand of the hour that we have love one toward another; and especially should this be manifest among those "who are of the household of Faith.
I would like to tell the readers of the Journal how the good seed is being scattered in remote places, where Christian Science had never been heard of. A letter was handed me by a friend, who asked me to read it, and answer it if I thought best.
Extracts from a private letter On our journey from T— to C— my son was taken with belief of cramps, which Truth soon vanquished. My sister (the one who was healed by faith in prayer) had belief of weak eyes.
A patient , after being under treatment a little over a week, for claim of paralysis (from the result of which she was unable to walk, except with support, and then, but a few steps), was able—after listening to, and hearing the healing voice of Truth expressed in the lesson of March 1st—to not only walk down stairs, but all the way home—a distance of eight blocks—saying, "What a revelation that lesson was to me. " She had never seen Science and Health until she called for help.
"How near we feel to Infinite Mind, as we behold the vastness of the power of Eternal Truth! Fear and falsehood and self-esteem are all that can cause a fall from this delightful elevation.
Twenty months ago I was a very miserable, unhappy woman. I had been the victim of complicated diseases for nearly five years, being confined to my bed; and was constantly taking from four to seven kinds of medicine.