Testimony of Healing October 17, 1903 Issue

Last January, I went to spend the winter months on the...

KATHARINE S. EWING

Last January, I went to spend the winter months on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, passing through the City of Mexico and remaining one night. I retired at my usual hour, but could not sleep. I tossed upon my pillow, growing more excited every moment, till the exhilaration culminated in an attack of hysteria, followed quickly by a high fever and an agonizing pain in my right lung. The great pain caused by the effort to breathe, partially restored my self-possession, and I remembered the claim that the high altitude of this city produced delirium and pneumonia.

To human sense, I was alone. I had no traveling companion, knew no one in the hotel, and it would have been useless to summon the hotel servants, as they did not understand English. But not for an instant did a feeling of loneliness or fear touch me. I felt that Love was infinitely near, and these words stood out against the darkness of my room, as if in illumined letters: "The depth, breadth, height, might, majesty, and glory of infinite Love fill all space. That is enough!" (Science and Health, p. 520). And it was enough. Twenty minutes of earnest work, and the pain ceased and I fell into a peaceful, quiet sleep, from which I wakened in the morning, bright, happy, and in a perfectly normal condition.

Six months later, I was again in the City of Mexico, remained ten days, and even ascended to an altitude two thousand feet higher, but there was no recurrence of the former condition, the error had been completely destroyed. In my six months' stay in the tropics, there were abundant opportunities for using a knowledge of the healing and harmonizing power of Truth as taught in Christian Science. The claims of climate, of excessive heat, extreme dampness, and the terrible insect pest, were all met very successfully, and I desire to express my gratitude to her who has shown us this truth. I will close with these words from the twenty-third Psalm, as given in our text-book, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of [LOVE] forever" (Science and Health, p. 578).

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