Testimony of Healing September 20, 1900 Issue

Fear Overcome by Christian Science

A. M. J.

Before coming into Christian Science, some five years ago, I suffered from intense nervousness, and could never be left alone at night. When my husband was away, he always took care to see that I was provided with plenty of whiskey, in case I should have one of my heart spells; also that a companion could stay with me at night. After the glorious truths of Christian Science were presented to me, life assumed an entirely new outlook. I realized so vividly the omnipresence of divine Love that there seemed to be no place for fear in my consciousness. When my husband had to take his customary trip East, I declared I would stay alone, as it seemed unreasonable to depend upon a frail mortal to look after me, when I could realize Love's protecting presence. When he suggested the whiskey, I almost laughed in his face. I had found my heart's Saviour, and where was the need of drugs or whiskey?

That very first night my faith was tested. About two o'clock in the morning I was suddenly awakened by the old suffocating feeling of fright, but through it came the still, small voice of Truth, speaking so clearly that it seemed to me it could have been heard all over the house: "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night. ... There shall no evil befall thee." Instantly I lay down with an indescribable feeling of peace and security that no words can ever express. Every bit of fear had fled, and I calmly and quietly went to sleep. That was the last of that old trouble. It has never returned since.

I also desire to give a demonstration I had with my little boy some months ago. He was playing with a group of children in the yard, when he was pushed violently to the ground, and fell on some rusty nails that protruded, point upwards, from a piece of wood. One of the nails pierced the eyeball, and he ran screaming with pain, to me. His sobs were so distressing that I could think of nothing but the first few lines of "Shepherd, show me how to go." I took him in my arms, and sang those lines repeatedly, while his little voice tried to join with me, until his head fell on my shoulder and he was fast asleep. Then I went to work to calm my own fears. Then he awoke with a severe spell of vomiting, but I realized the Truth for him, and he again went to sleep. My husband wanted to take him to an oculist to have the eye examined, but I begged him to wait until the following day, I felt so sure of the victory. The following day there was such a decided improvement that nothing more was said about the oculist, and on the morning of the third day he was entirely healed. There is not even a mark to show where the nail entered.

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