With the hope that this testimony may in a small way express my thankfulness for a copy of the Christian Science Sentinel, which was sent to me some four years ago, I would like to tell of some of the good it has accomplished. About the time it arrived we were able with pleasure to watch the healing of a gentleman from tubercular disease and that of a lady from one of the most serious internal troubles, so that our lives were filled with the good that could come through a right understanding of God. In ten days I had laid off my glasses, and a chronic stomach disorder of eight years' standing absolutely disappeared, for I found that I could eat as naturally as ever. My husband was healed of a skin disease in three days' time, and at the end of a month was healed of the smoking habit. We immediately began to attend church and to study Christian Science literature, and applied ourselves in a systematic way to avail ourselves of the benefits which are to be derived therefrom.
I should mention that these healings resulted from the reading of Science and Health an hour a day, also the Sentinel, and more recently another beautiful healing has come to me. As a child, I did not walk until I was three years of age, and it was always a great effort for me, as the formation of the foot was imperfect and I had no use of my toes in walking. Recently a friend who had a similar trouble went to a hospital and had a serious operation performed, and in order to clear my own consciousness of the need of relying on material means to aid us in such circumstances, I went to work to know the truth about God, man, and the universe. At the end of five weeks this friend was able to walk, but with great effort. That evening I looked at my feet and they were as they had always been; but the next evening they were so transformed that I could hardly believe my own eyes. The shape and structure had entirely changed, and they were in every way normal. The change in my walk was noticeable to all, and it made a great impression on those who did not believe in Christian Science. In reviewing the preceding five weeks, I found that I had cast out a great deal of resentment, and that many conditions of thought had been changed, lifted into a higher consciousness. I also remembered that I had had a sense as though the tendons from the knee down had been stretched, and that the toe which was the tightest had ached very hard for a couple of days.
I have tried to put into practise all the truth I have gained, and I know that the Science of being, understood and practised, will bring the true healing, and that as we progress in this we shall be made "every whit whole." I am sure those who in the past were aware of this difficulty will rejoice with me in the demonstration of the power of Love and Truth.— Brookline, Mass.
