Testimony of Healing January 16, 1902 Issue

We hear a great deal about gratitude from Christian Scientists

D. S. M.

We hear a great deal about gratitude from Christian Scientists. Certainly their growing ranks express more, perhaps, of this sentiment than any other people on the face of the globe. And what is it that Christian Scientists are so deeply, so sincerely, grateful for? They are, of course, grateful for bodily healing, for rescue from poverty and from fear of discord and untoward conditions; but most of all are Christian Scientists grateful because they are really learning a little of what God is. We hear a great many people say they have no God, they do not believe in God; but this is impossible. They may not believe in the ordinary conception of God, but every individual has some law, force, or ideal which governs him and controls his action and governs his relation with others; and this is his God. The salvation of us all rests in finding the true idea of God, — what God really is.

Christian Science tells us to recall our thoughts from thinking of God as an unknown force or a physical law or a personality, and to find Him omnipresent, divine Love, Mind; and to come to the point where the still, small voice of healing is found to be the voice of God. When we come to know that thoughts of good are reflections of God and are all-powerful, then we begin to know a little about God, — that God is in the midst of us, "in Him we live, and move, and have our being." We cease to be like the fish in the sea, asking, "Where is the ocean?" or like birds of the air, asking, "Where is the air?" God is everywhere and God is ever-present. "The tabernacle of God is with men. and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people."

A patient was suffering from what the doctors had pronounced to be blood poisoning from a carbuncle on his arm. The patient had suffered very much, and it was said that the bone was affected and the arm would perhaps have to be amputated. Christian Science took hold of the case and the patient began to improve. There was quite a struggle to bring to the thought of the patient that divine Mind was governing the case and was healing her, and she suffered a great deal from the pain. The patient told the Christian Scientist that one night she met the pain when it tried to occupy her consciousness, with the thought that God was in and through all. From that time the patient began to improve, and was entirely healed.

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