Testimony of Healing May 2, 1901 Issue

A Helpful Experience

N. S.

I was very much interested in an article in the Sentinel a few weeks in relation to reading the smaller works of Mrs. Eddy. While the writer truly said that our text-book was the "multum in parvo of our blessed faith," yet he thought that we should not neglect to read our Leader's other publications, and study them. That reminded me of an experience that I had after reading "Retrospection and Introspection," which I will relate, hoping it may help some one else.

A few years ago when the grip was prevalent here. I one night seemed suddenly to have a hard cold followed by fever, pain in every bone and in my head. I also had a sense of extreme weakness and breathed with difficulty. I did not mention my feelings to any one, but my refusing to eat anything and my apparently high fever and cough alarmed some of the family.

I denied all thought of the grip. When I was alone I began to read "Retrospection and Introspection," which had come in the evening mail. I did not stop reading until I had finished the book. The seemingly acute symptoms of the grip were all gone. I myself could hardly believe in the quick relief from anything so painful and distressing. When one of the family came in later in the evening, he looked at me in surprise and said. "Why, what has happened to you? You look well and all right and you looked very sick a few hours ago." I handed him the book I had just finished and said. "Reading that book changed my thought, and the Truth has made me free."

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