Testimonies of Healing
When Christian Science found me, almost two years ago, I was a complete physical wreck "having no hope, and without God in the world," for I could not believe in a God who would send such suffering as was my daily experience. For many months I suffered from the results of a heavy cold which, the doctors said, had affected my lungs, and also brought on a complication of troubles from which I could not recover.
When I first read Christian Science literature, it was with the aid of a pair of reading glasses which I had used for about six years. By their aid I was able to read for an hour at the most, but even that amount of reading or writing used to cause a terrible aching pain at the back of my eyes.
I feel that I have great reason to be thankful for the healing power of Truth, which has been my salvation from sin and sickness. Several years ago I felt convinced that Christian Science was the truth, but instead of standing firm, I listened to error, chose evil instead of good, and continued to drift along in a sense of pleasure and life apart from God, until through great suffering I was forced to turn to Christian Science again, after all material remedies and human aid had proved futile to liberate me from the bondage of sin and sickness.
I can best express my gratitude for our publications, by giving a few of the wonderful cases of healing which have proved God to be the only power. When called upon to apply the truth to destroy a severe illness, many times I have felt so utterly helpless that I could only be still, and declare in the words of the Master, "I can of mine own self do nothing.
Shortly after taking up the study of Christian Science, I was discharged from my position on a newspaper, and with a young wife to care for and little hope of employment, because I had few acquaintances and because "times were bad," I had to turn to God. "He shall call upon me, and I will answer him I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him," was very real to me then, and it came about that I was not only reinstated on the same paper, but was given a better position and larger salary.
EVER since my return to my home in Santiago, Chile, S. A.
The Psalmist expressed Truth in beautiful simplicity, when he said in the Twenty-third Psalm, "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. " Until recent years, this was only a beautiful poetical expression to my thought; but, through a little understanding of divine Love, it is to me now a figurative statement of an eternal truth, setting forth in simplicity the relations of God to man, and man to God.
My husband and I are the only Scientists nearer than Water Valley, Miss. , ten miles from us.
I should like to say how deeply grateful I am for what has been done for me through Christian Science. Fifteen months ago I was suffering intensely both physically and mentally.
On the 29th of May, 1901, I had my arm broken while attending to business at a distance from home. I was brought home in an ambulance and attended by two physicians.