Testimony of Healing December 5, 1901 Issue

Right Thinking an Effectual Help

Alice P. Hanson

I had been an invalid for over ten years from dyspepsia and liver trouble, and for six years I lived on the simplest diet and drank nothing but hot water. My trouble took a very peculiar form. I consulted many physicians and they all told me a different story and all failed to cure me. They told me that if I was not more particular about my diet I would become paralyzed. I lived in constant terror all the time.

I began to investigate Christian Science in October, 1900. It came about in this way. I had a friend who was a Scientist, but as I never heard her say anything about it, I concluded that there was not very much in it. One evening I was telling her about my liver trouble and she smiled and said, "Perhaps if you did not think in the way you do you would not have any liver trouble." It struck me at once as being a very strange and new idea, and I asked her if she really meant it. She replied that she certainly did. We did not say anything more about it that evening. In the morning I asked her to tell me something about Christian Science. She did so, and I knew at once it was what I wanted. I soon got "Science and Health with Key to Scriptures" and commenced to study it. In less than two months I was free from stomach and liver trouble. Now, when I am at all out of harmony I ask myself, "What condition of mind produced this?" I know that food has no power to harm one, and when Truth corrects my thought my physical condition is changed. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."

I have been able to help my brother, who believes in Christian Science because he sees what it has done for me. He had an abscess which had caused him a great deal of suffering for more than ten years, and his physicians told him that the next time it gave him any trouble he would have to have an operation performed. We tried Christian Science and there is no more abscess, he is completely healed.—Alice P. Hanson, Seattle, Wash.

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