Testimony of Healing December 18, 1902 Issue

I have known of Christian Science for about fourteen...

L. M. S.

I have known of Christian Science for about fourteen years, but gave no attention to it until some three and a half years ago. I had been doctoring constantly for about six months, and had had poor health for years before this. Finding myself no better after spending much money for medical treatment, I accepted an invitation to go to relatives and receive Christian Science treatment. Before going my weight was one hundred and four pounds; after three weeks' treatment I weighed one hundred and eighteen pounds. I began doing my own work, running up and down stairs, against which a law of limitation had been previously made, and which when disobeyed, brought suffering. I also did all the cooking for seven. Circumstances seemed to make it impossible for me to study and practise Christian Science, and I soon found myself discordant again. The most annoying illnesses were stomach trouble and a pain on the top of my head which had bothered me for years, and at which the physicians would shake their heads with a perplexed look and remark, "I do not know the cause of it."

I began to study, but I did not work while it was day, and the night was come and was getting darker and darker. Then when a little daughter was born we had a doctor. This was our third child, and at the birth of the second I almost passed away; consequently I had a great fear, and just as I expected, I almost passed on this time. On the night of the tenth day after the birth, I was attacked with excruciating pains. I did not think I should live till morning. The doctor pronounced it neuralgia of the stomach. I took medicine every two hours for four weeks, but had from three to five spells a week. The medicine did no good, but the chloroform did relieve me somewhat. I grew so discouraged and despondent that I began to make preparations for my death, which I felt sure was near. Only those who have been in the "valley of the shadow of death" can understand what I suffered. I wanted treatments again, but my husband was not strongly in favor; however, when he saw I was getting no better he consented. When my baby was five weeks old I began with Christian Science treatment; I had one spell only after this, but I was so disappointed at not being healed at once that I tried first one practitioner and then another; and there were many battles to fight and many doubts and fears. I think I cried about one third of the time, often a whole day. Every organ in the body seemed to be diseased, and I seemed to be sore all over. I can see now it was best for me that the healing was slow. Although two and a half years have elapsed. I still have errors to meet. Very much has been done for me.—notably, the almost entire relief from that terrible fear of an early death and the above mentioned pain in my head. I can eat what I please,—meat, beans, etc.,—which formerly brought on the neuralgic pain.

I am learning in Science that we cannot inherit anything but good, for we have but one parent, even God; that we are made in His image and likeness, that we cannot express death or a fear of death, for God is Life. The image in the glass does not express one quality which the original has not.

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