Testimony of Healing December 17, 1938 Issue

My gratitude for Christian Science increases daily, and...

Leontine Allen

My gratitude for Christian Science increases daily, and cannot be adequately expressed in words. For ten years of my childhood I was taught to be afraid of God, and this fear continued until, in 1914, I was told by a Christian Scientist that God is Love, always and everywhere. The wonderful revelation that God is our divine Mother, as well as our Father, gave me the desire to read the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. My first perusal of this marvelous book completely healed me of constipation, from which I had suffered all my childhood. Later, heart trouble left me after four doctors had agreed that I could not live beyond a certain age. Speaking in terms of time, I have lived twenty-four years longer than the span thus allotted me.

I experienced a healing of trouble seemingly caused by my swallowing a large plum stone. Having failed to forbid the entrance of "the intruding belief" (ibid., p. 393), I suffered intensely for four hours. My calls for help were unheard by those in the house, so I asked God for a healing message; and He sent His angel, for I mentally heard a voice say, "Vain is the help of man." Then I turned unreservedly to God, and the agony ceased as suddenly as it had begun. A sense of peace and calm enfolded me, and I fell asleep.

Another healing was of a choking sensation which occurred daily for several weeks, culminating in a severe attack while I was visiting a sister in London. She telephoned to a practitioner for me, and his work was so effective that I have never had a recurrence of the trouble. My first healing through the work of a practitioner was of neuralgia, in 1919. This also was instantaneous, and I have had no return of the condition.

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