Testimonies of Healing
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was summoned, by telegraph, to a friend in a distant town. Hastily obeying the call, I found when I reached the home, that she had been for days under a belief of mental aberration.
The first few words that were spoken to me on the subject of Christian Science opened up such glorious possibilities, a new world of light and joy such as would be impossible for me to describe. The beautiful teachings of Jesus came to me in glimpses; and I stood still in wonder, that the world had not before seen what held us all in bondage.
Ever since my treatment, I have felt as well as I ever did in my life. I do not have a pain or an ache about me.
Two years ago this fall, I was a great sufferer—suffering in many ways. Rheumatism had troubled me since I was nine years old, so that at times I could not move my fingers.