Testimony of Healing July 4, 1903 Issue

He who was called the beloved disciple writes, "Beloved,...

Fanny Carstarphen Brady

He who was called the beloved disciple writes, "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is Love," and in "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy writes of Love, "Over what worlds on worlds it hath range and is sovereign! the underived, the incomparable, the infinite All of Good, the alone God, is Love" (p. 250).

To-day as mortals emerge from the material into the spiritual understanding of all things, through the teaching of Science and Health, we can truly testify that God is Love, and will and does do more for us than all the wisdom, wealth, and love of the world can do, no matter how earnest and persistent our efforts may have been to gain help from the material. Of this love which was taught and practised by Jesus and his chosen disciples, I today stand a living witness, for whereas I was once doomed to a life of total blindness by materia medica, now through the understanding that God is Love, my eyes are perfectly healed.

I was reared very carefully in the orthodox church by God-loving parents, and loved and worked in this church earnestly until I became too blind to attend longer; and in those dark days I would wonder and ponder where this God of Love was, that I should be doomed to a life worse than death to me. Then my earnest prayer each night was that I might die before the morning. Death had no terror for me, for I had always been taught that God was a loving Father and would take me straight home to himself. But oh the horror and fear that came to me when I found that I did not die, but lived on in this open grave. Only those who have lived in this frightful darkness can tell of the blankness and despair of a life shut out from the world. In the depths of darkness mental and physical, the still small voice of Truth which I was ever listening to led me to take Christian Science treatment, although I then had no faith in it; my minister for whom I had the highest regard having bitterly denounced it.

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