Testimony of Healing December 26, 1903 Issue

For eight years I have been learning, through the teachings...

Ava H. Glisson

For eight years I have been learning, through the teachings of Christian Science, something of what Life is, and something of the meaning of Jesus' words, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."

Of the many blessings that have been mine, if I could tell of one more than another for which I am most grateful, I think it would be the healing of a very unhappy condition of thought I had lived in for more than fifteen years, which might be termed rebellion or resentment, because I felt that I had long suffered a great injustice. When I first heard of Christian Science I had also been a constant sufferer from many diseases for more than nine years; five of these years I was a helpless and almost hopeless invalid. Part of this time w/as spent in the hospitals and sanitariums where I had four serious surgical operations performed by some of the most noted surgeons in the South, but each operation seemed only to add new diseases and greater suffering, until I had despaired of ever being even relieved, much less well again, unless help could come through some other means than materia medica.

I had often told my father and friends that if I were ever cured it would be through divine power; so when I heard to Christian Science, and that it was curing sick people without medicine, I felt that possibly there was some hope for me, if I could only go to a Christian Scientist; but my father and all the family felt that this would result in failure as everything else had done, and they were very much opposed to my having anything to do with it. It was therefore through many trials and after several months of earnest prayer that God would provide some way or means through which I might learn something of this (to me) new religion, that the way was opened for me to go to a Christian Science practitioner, who was then in a neighboring town. It was she who first placed in my hands "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and three days' reading of this book together with three silent treatments from this practitioner, transformed me into a new woman.

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