Testimony of Healing May 29, 1902 Issue

When at Pleasant View last June, Mrs. Eddy said to...

Mary D. Rice

When at Pleasant View last June, Mrs. Eddy said to the Christian Scientists: "I think you will all agree with me that you have heard sufficient from me in my message," little did I then realize what this "Message" meant to me and my work. After returning home, and making this a daily study, it gradually unfolded to me.

A man, whose wife had been helped through treatment five years before, was a gambler and intemperate, and each Saturday evening when he received his wages would drink and gamble until he had little or nothing left for his family. Well do I remember how, one cold winter night, his wife, three small children, and all their belongings were set out in the street, because the rent had not been paid.

Several times he was treated, but would never acknowledge that the desire for liquor was destroyed. Times without number, his wife came to me weeping and hopeless, and no one can know, who has not had this experience, how one feels, who knows the power of Truth, yet in a case like this fails to demonstrate it. When I had carefully studied that part of the message beginning on page 19, I felt that I now realized the nothingness of sin sufficiently to meet this case, sent for the man, and in one treatment he was healed, and knew that he no longer desired liquor or the company of gamblers. He has been satisfied with his home and family ever since.

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