Testimony of Healing September 13, 1900 Issue

Found Health in Christian Science

Kate Buell Morey

How well I remember the day I decided to take Science treatment. I had been to our family physician and he had told me he could give me nothing which would cure me, that if I found any drug that relieved me to use it. At that time I was taking tonics and stimulants continually. No cure, only relief! No one to whom that has not been said can realize the utter hopelessness of such a statement.

On my way home I met an old friend to whom I related what the doctor had said, and he urged me to try Christian Science and I consented for him to write to a practitioner at once. I commenced reading and studying at this time. My healing was very slow. I think I was treated about three months and it seemed to me I was little if any better. My sense of health was freedom from aches and pains, and it did not seem to me I was in any less bondage to them than before, but time has proved I was mistaken. Many troubles that I considered of minor importance disappeared at that time, such as chronic sore throat—sometimes quinsy, sometimes diphtheretic,—an inability to travel either by land or water, nausea, constipation, fear of getting feet wet, weak ankles, inability to eat certain articles of food, a liability to fever and delirium at the slightest provocation. It seems to me as I look back that I was freed from almost all the ills that flesh in heir to, but because the trouble for which I had come to Christian Science had not been destroyed I did not see why I was not healed. However, as I progressed in understanding, I found that true health was spiritual wholeness, that as I became better spiritually I was better physically. Three times during my first years in Science I was healed instantaneously of severe pain, once of an ulcerated tooth.

Always before I came into Christian Science I was obliged to go to a dentist every six months or oftener, but have only been to a dentist once within the last four years. I was probably treated more than a year, and every one of those treatments helped to free me from beliefs in material laws and the direful consequences of those beliefs.

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