Testimony of Healing February 6, 1902 Issue

I have, thus far, hesitated to say anything in the Journal...

J. Q. B. with contributions from Ida M. Campbell

I have, thus far, hesitated to say anything in the Journal or Sentinel, being in doubt whether I should speak to edification. But perhaps my brief experience may help some one whose entrance into the path of Christian Science is even more recent than mine. For many years I had been a victim to the claim dyspepsia, and later, of nervous weakness and kindred diseases. Medicines galore I used for various claims, and when I began reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in August last, I was carrying with me daily three or four of these.

After reading a few pages, I suddenly awoke to the consciousness that I was being healed. Gratitude for such an unexpected blessing led me to think of my many friends still in bondage as object or even more so, than my own had been; and I felt that I must demonstrate out of my own experience if I would be helpful to others. Near the last of October, with some trepidation, I left all my medicines at home in the morning, and told the Lord that he was all I had to depend upon for that day. To my surprise, there came a sweet consciousness of his nearness. Then my eyes were opened to see that I had been leaning upon drugs, instead of trusting Him.

One after another my many claims are vanishing. The future has a brighter outlook, and I read the Scriptures in a new light. Christian Science is the religion of hope. Though I have but touched the hem of Truth's garment, my understanding longs to demonstrate more fully the great possibilities of this way of Life. My heart is filled with gratitude to God, and to our own dear Leader. The Sunday and Wednesday evening services at the Mother Church have been exceedingly helpful to me. That I may be the means of leading others into the liberty I so much enjoy is the most earnest wish of—J. Q. B.

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