Testimony of Healing May 23, 1903 Issue

When the subject of Christian Science was presented to...

E. A. HALES with contributions from C. G. READ

When the subject of Christian Science was presented to me a little more than six years ago, it did not appeal to me because of its healing qualities, it came to me as "a beautiful teaching." My daughter was away from home at the time,a and when she commenced writing home about it, I told her it was prophesied that in the latter days there should be false teaching, and it should be clothed in a garment of light, insomuch that it would deceive, if possible, the very elect; and that she should be careful about what she read. However, after a few letters had passed between us on the subject, I was led to call upon a Christian Scientist and ask for the loan of her "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

I sat down to read it, and such a thrill went through my whole being that I involuntarily closed the book and offered up a silent prayer that I might not be led into error, and these words came to me, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." This destroyed my sense of fear and I read for about an hour. Before I laid the book down, I knew it was true.

I had early learned to love my Bible. To me it was the Word of God and seemed to speak directly to me. It had become my guide-book, my comforter, to such an extent that it seemed impossible to open it and not find words just suited to my needs, and yet it never healed me of my diseases until I read it in the light of Christian Science. I can truthfully say that in the first three months' study of Christian Science literature, I gained a better understanding of the Scriptures than in all my previous study of them. I was not only healed of several chronic incurable hereditary diseases, but I was lifted up into a purer, more spiritual atmosphere, and gained such a sense of freedom from weakness, weariness, care, and anxiety as I had never before known. But better than all this is the joy that comes to one in being enabled to help others rise above their false beliefs of evil in all its deceptiveness, into a knowledge of infinite Good, Life, Truth, and Love.—MRS. E. A. HALES, Chicago, Ill.

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