Testimonies of Healing
When I left you, I quit the sinful habit for about a week. After that, I indulged worse than ever, until I suffered enough in mortal belief and thoughts to make me willing to leave all for Truth, Christ.
The Scriptures declare that God's ways are higher than man's; then His method of healing also must he higher, God's medicine is Mind. Spirits, drugs, material means are man made.
I was called upon, a short time ago, to demonstrate the Truth, in a case where the patient was delirious most of the time, with other aggravated symptoms. For several days I tried faithfully to realize and demonstrate the Truth of Being, but with no apparent success.
"Truth makes a new creation. " Christian healing rightly understood is "the transforming by the renewing of the mind " as Paul expresses it.
I have just been reading in the Journal asking us all to do our part. It is now nearly one year since I was led to hear this glorious Truth, and I would not lose the peace of mind it has given me for all the money in the world.
What is healing? This question is fully answered in Science and Health, to all who follow its teachings, in demonstration of the words and works of Jesus Christ. Thereby we learn that "there are really but two modes of practice; one is quackery the other is Science," (S.
" We think we are healed when a disease disappears, though it is liable to reappear. " "No man is healed in sin, or by it, any more than he is morally saved in sin or by it.
My recent experience with impersonal belief of evil, may help some brother or sister struggling to get rid of personal sense: — for, has not our Teacher said that whatever "purifies, sanctifies, and consecrates human life is not an enemy;" that, "the best lesson of their life is gained by crossing swords with temptation, with fear and besetments of evil—insomuch as they thereby have tried their strength and proven it"? Less than a month ago, one Saturday morning, through the careless handling of another, some of the contents of a box of concentrated lye was spilled in my eye. Immediately, in thought, I went up "into the mountain to pray,"; and thus overcame the mortal mind images that came surging over me like a multitude; so that I continued with my household work until finished.
It was three years last May since I first heard of Christian Science. I was at that time a slave to tobacco, and had been subject to sick-headache from a youth, as well as to beliefs of pain from neuralgia.
About twenty months ago, my attention was directed to Science and Health. Being at the time, and having been for years previous, a subject of many beliefs in sin and sickness; and having tried in vain to find help in either orthodoxy (which I had in abundance) or in medicine (which I had tested to the utmost) I eagerly perused its pages and pondered over its meaning.