Testimony of Healing July 11, 1903 Issue

I wish to express my gratitude for the blessings of...

Gussie Howard

I wish to express my gratitude for the blessings of Christian Science. Nine months ago I first saw Science and Health, and I date my health and happiness from that day. After reading this text-book of Christian Science for two weeks I was enabled to take off my glasses, which I had worn for six years, and which the oculist had told me I could never go without. The apprehension of the truth expressed in Science and Health: God is all-seeing, God is my sight, healed my eyes. When this truth dawned upon me I took my glasses off, and afterward sold them in a jewelry store for old gold, and with the proceeds I bought a copy of the book.

Ever since I was a child I have been afflicted with very round shoulders. When about twelve years old my father, who was a physician, put shoulder-braces on me, but they did no good. After I grew to womanhood, I studied physical culture, with the Delsarte movements, but nothing seemed to accomplish the desired end. I was still taking these exercises when I began reading Science and Health, and after my eyes were healed, I left off these exercises for I thought that divine Love, which had healed my eyes, straighten my shoulders, too. I had read Science and Health four months, when my shoulders were made right.

I am very, very grateful for these physical blessings, but there is a greater blessing still that came with the physical healing, the wonderful spiritual uplifting. The greater blessing to me lies in the realization of the words: "Lo, I am with you alway!" Or, as our Christian Science text-book puts it: "Not only in all time, but in all ways and conditions" (Science and Health, p. 317).

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