Testimony of Healing February 7, 1901 Issue

Deliverance Came in Due Season

Anna C. Thew

I was a sufferer of years' standing, not confined to bed but enough out of harmony in many respects to make life not worth the living. Constipation of thirty years' duration and other consequent sufferings that had resisted all medicines and every other attempted cure. Notwithstanding my wretched physical condition, I was a hard worker in the tenement houses among the poor, and upon this occasion I had gone to the Adirondack mountains to spend my few weeks vacation.

I tried conscientiously to realize the Truth taught us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," so that instead of going into the parlor evenings and entering into the amusements there, I had a certain sense of peace in retiring to my room to think of the perfection and beauty of God's creation. During the day I wandered in the woods with the rest of the company, and saw many things that indicated jearousy, spite, pride, selfishness, and invalidism, but I loved those people none the less, and was happy with them, taking no notice of those traits of character, having simply a steadfast feeling that God was good and all His creation like Him, no matter what might appear. This state of things lasted throughout the six weeks of my sojourn in the mountains, all the time my own sufferings continuing the same; still I never wavered in my thoughts Godward.

The next day after I left the mountains there came to me the most beautiful change physically. All the suffering was gone. From that time the bowels moved with absolute regularity. All parts of my body were so perfect in action that I walked the streets wondering how it was I could have doubted the goodness of God to the extent of ever having been conscious of any kind of inharmony. That steadfast realization of the perfect love and beauty of God and His idea overpowered all images of irritation, envy, spite, etc.,—until they were blotted out.

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