Christian Science has been our only physician for over twenty years. In that time we have had many demonstrations. About a year after taking up the study of it I had a testing time. One afternoon I was taken ill with severe hemorrhages. I tried to declare the truth, but they kept returning. When my husband came home he worked with me, and about two o'clock in the morning I dropped asleep. On waking at the usual time it seemed necessary for me to be up, so I arose and attended to my household duties, at the same time working to overcome my fears; but I could not seem to meet them, and about nine o'clock the hemorrhages came back as bad as ever. I was alone, my husband being at business and the children at school. I had no telephone. I would not have known where to find a practitioner even if I had had one. I took the Bible and read until I came to the text in Isaiah, "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." When I came to the part, "Be not dismayed; for I am thy God," I knew I had found what I needed, such a quietness and peace came to me. I had been dismayed! Taking this text I worked for two hours, trying to grasp its full meaning, until I felt I was healed. My husband had denied the thought of weakness, and there was none. In a few days the color began to come back to my face, and in about two weeks it was natural.
That was over fifteen years ago. I was able to do, without any bad effects, any kind of work that came to me around the home, work that under medical treatment I might have been forbidden to do for perhaps months, and my healing has been permanent. While I am grateful for all the blessings that have come to me through Christian Science, I think I am most grateful for this demonstration; for it proved to me so conclusively that Christian Science healing is the Christ -healing. I am very, very grateful for Christian Science.
I am also grateful for God's protecting care. We had this proved to us very clearly. Several years ago. when there seemed to be a scarcity of houses, the place where we were living was unexpectedly sold and we were given the customary thirty days in which to vacate. Immediately my neighbors began saying: "Where will you go? What will you do? There is not a vacant house in town." Each of these suggestions as soon as voiced was mentally denied and the right thought put in its place, that we had our place in divine Mind and we could know it. When our allotted time was half gone, I found an anxious thought creeping in. The camp ground at that time of the year—November—was not a pleasant outlook. I was doing my mental work each day; and while I was working, this text of Scripture came to me, "Be still, and know that I am God." After I had worked a few minutes with this text my anxiety left me. In about half an hour a neighbor came and told me of a very desirable place that was to be vacant in about a week. I called the agent, but found he was in the East and would not be back for three days. I told his wife what I wanted, but she did not know how many he had on his waiting list for that particular house. We had four days left. The next morning the agent (having returned during the night) came in to see my husband, and asked if twentyseven dollars and a half would be too much to ask for the house. We were very grateful, not only for such a desirable place, but for such a reasonable rent. In less than two months every place that had been previously offered us and we had failed to obtain was sold, and the tenants were again looking for a place in which to live. The one we obtained belonged to an estate, and we could stay just as long as we desired; and we did stay for over three years, until we left the little town. I am very grateful for Christian Science.— Long Beach, California.
