Testimony of Healing September 20, 1900 Issue

Healed of Many Ills

Sarah M. Smith

For many years I sought the understanding of the Scriptures, which I found at last in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." It was with great joy I learned how to pray aright. My baby boy, two and a half years old, was passing away with bowel trouble. Medicine had no effect whatever, and he was given but a short time to live. This seemed more than I was able to bear. Five months previous to this, my husband and little girl had an attack of malarial fever in its worst form, while living in California, and were convalescing at the time my baby was taken ill. I was led to call upon a Christian Science practitioner. I was told my baby could be perfectly well through Christian Science. I was given the tract on "Prayer." After waiting two days I carried him to the practitioner's home,—a helpless little form with high fever, moaning with pain, and all the symptoms accompanying such a complaint. Treatment began at once. In less than an hour he was enjoying health such as he had never known before, and when he returned home had a natural passage of the bowels, the first in ten days. His sister was also healed at the same time, and to-day they are pictures of health.

From the time of my birth it was predicted if I lived I would always be frail and sickly. I never knew what it was to feel well. Each winter I was confined to the house with my eyes, most of the time in a dark room. The best oculists in New York failed to cure me, giving only temporary relief. Contagion in the neighborhood always found me a ready subject. As I grew into girlhood consumption claimed me, but that was destroyed after coming to Colorado, only to take other forms. When Christian Science found me I was doctoring for biliousness, chronic malaria, dyspepsia, female trouble (having passed through an operation for tumor), and nervous prostration. During the second treatment I was wakened from a refreshing sleep, the first in many months, to receive the manifestation of Truth casting out error. In less than a minute I was transformed from the old self into a perfectly well woman with marvelous strength, a wonder to all who had seen me before the change. Glasses were left off, the sight restored in the left eye as perfectly as the right eye, the sight, but not the light, having been lost several years ago.

Could any one doubt the love and gratitude which goes out to our dear Mother who has labored long and patiently to bring this blessed Truth which makes free, to suffering humanity? But infinitely greater than freedom from suffering is the freedom from doubt and fear, and the understanding that plants our feet upon the rock, Christ. Recently my husband and I have had the great privilege of class instruction from a loyal student of Mrs. Eddy.

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