Testimony of Healing April 29, 1905 Issue

It is often said, "I have not enough faith to be healed by...

Elizabeth L. Lloyd

It is often said, "I have not enough faith to be healed by Christian Science, or to trust my children to it." That great faith on the part of the patient, at first, is not absolutely necessary to the healing, was plainly proven to me, when I allowed my little daughter, of five years of age, to be treated. I thought, and said to the one who took the case, "I will convince myself and you that there is nothing in Christian Science that can help us." for I was in nearly as great need as the child. Christian Science had been very kindlly offered me a year before, by one who saw my then great need, with my two little ones. Never having heard of it before. I classed it with faith cure, mental science, etc., and wanted nothing to do with it. Finally after several months, this friend, seeing the distressed condition of my child, who was growing worse daily, being only partially relieved by remedies of the best physicians, who had kindly and faithfully done all in their power for her,—said to me, "Would you not be willing she should be treated a week by Christian Science, and if no worse, try it another week?" My friend added that if I was willing to suffer it was my own affair, but that it did not seen fair to allow the child to suffer so when she could be relieved. While I believed she could not be helped. I knew the friend was honest in her belief to the contrary, and to satisfy her, more than anything else, and with faint hope that if there was any truth in it I ought to give my child the benefit of it, I consented to the treatment. The friend urged me to go to a regular practitioner, but I would not. I asked her to take the case herself, and there being no other way, owing to my obstinacy in the matter, she did.

Her faithfulness was rewarded.—the healing was instantancous, and there has never been a return of the trouble, although the five-year-old child is now a girl of sixteen, and that admission shows how slow I have been to acknowledge the blessing through our periodicals.

After the healing of my little daughter, I had treatment for myself from the same friend with wonderfully happy results. Never since that time have we used material remedies of any kind, nor has there ever been a moment's doubt of the truth and efficacy of Christian Science. After reading Science and Health for months, and while it was still as Greek to me. I finally took treatment of a regular practitioner for a trouble of eight years' standing, for which I had been sentenced to invalidism, and had served some years of my sentence, with much suffering. I was perfectly healed, — being able remove, at once and entirely, a support I had not been without, day or night, for three years. While I had been able to do but little of my own housework, and that little with difficulty, I have been able ever since to do any part of it. We have had many serious things to meet, when error seemed to be real, but its nothingness was always proved. My little son, twelve years of age, has no remembrance of dependence upon anything aside from God, as taught in Christian Science. He nearly always does his own work in Science, and often has helped me. Some years ago I had the benefit of class teaching by one of Mrs. Eddy's students. Of Mrs. Eddy herself, with her long years of unremitting, patient toil, in giving to a darkened world the Christ-light which shines so clearly through her pure consciousness, I stand in reverence. It seems to me that this generation can scarcely conceive of the magnitude, the far-reaching effects of her loving, patient work. — Mrs. Elizabeth L. Lloyd, Utica, N. Y.

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