Testimony of Healing July 11, 1903 Issue

It was about Easter time last year that through the...

Gertrude M. Bradley

It was about Easter time last year that through the kindness of a friend I learned of Christian Science. She lent me her Science and Health to read, and since then I have been gradually "coming to Life." Not straight off, without a relapse, but with much the same movement that brings a cork ashore bit by bit on the incoming tide, and it may be of use to other beginners to know the causes of one or two of these despairing relapses.

For some time after having treatment from a Scientist friend and being healed, I was very happy and well. Then, unaccountably, I began again to get almost crippled with rheumatic gout. In despair I wrote again for treatment, but felt utterly hopeless of ever being safe.

She began absent treatment, but this time I got no relief, and told her so. Then she wrote and most lovingly pointed out the reason of my non-recovery. Truth had shown her — First, that I was letting resentment for some injury abide in my thoughts and so was shutting out Love. Secondly, that I was giving my affections to some human person rather than to God. He was not first in my thought; therefore I was shutting out omnipotence.

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