Testimony of Healing January 23, 1904 Issue

For a long time I have been impelled to contribute a...

Jennie P. McIntyre

For a long time I have been impelled to contribute a testimony of the healing power of Truth. As I read other testimonies and rejoice in them, some one may rejoice in mine. I was healed by reading Science and Health. By applying it, I found it to be the truth that Jesus taught,—the truth that sets free.

From childhood I had never known a well day. I was healed of lung trouble of long standing. Consumption was hereditary in our family, my mother and three brothers having passed on with it. The law of materia medica said that in a short time I must follow them. I also had severe stomach trouble of over eight years' standing, during which time I always retired without supper, as the fear of suffering from my food was so great that I denied myself food when hungry. For over twenty years I had ovarian trouble, which was almost unbearable at times. It dated from the birth of my first child, and at one time necessitated an operation. I suffered with about all the ills that flesh is heir to: I had trouble with my eyes from a child; wore glasses for fourteen years, several oculists saying I would go blind, one declarign I would be blind in less than a year if I did not submit to an operation, which I refused to do.

But thanks be to God who so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that blessed Christ who was sent to us to open the eyes of the blind and set the captive free; who reached me through the study of our text-book which gives us the understanding of the Christ-truth. Words fail me to express what Christian Science has done for me in various ways, for my children, my home, my all. The physical healing is but a small part; the spiritual unfolding and uplifting is the "pearl of great price," the half that has never yet been told. Thanks to God, and to her who has made it possible for me to receive such blessings, that loving, consecrated woman, Mrs. Eddy, who, by revelation, has made clear to our darkened sense, the one living Principle, God, good, and thus awakened within us an appreciation of our great teacher, Christ, as the way-shower of Truth and Love. Since coming to Kansas City, I have had the blessed privilege of class instruction and am having daily proofs that Christian Science is the same word which was in the beginning with God; it is the Comforter leading us to see the Motherhood as well as the Fatherhood of God. Nor do I forget the help of the Sentinels and Journals and our weekly Lesson-Sermons which are meat and drink, and daily helps to overcome error. For all these blessings, I want to learn obedience and follow the leadings of Truth.

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