Testimony of Healing October 1, 1904 Issue

Gratitude for the understanding of Christian Science...

G. M. H.

Gratitude for the understanding of Christian Science which I have, and for the benefits I have received from it, impels me to give the Field a partial account of what Truth has done for me. I never could express all I have experienced of its blessings. I first heard of Christian Science fifteen years ago through a dear friend of the family. At this time I and my two small sons felt the healing power of Truth through this friend's work for us, and within the past seven years I have been healed of nervous prostration in its worst form by a practitioner, who afterwards became my teacher.

Through my own understanding I was healed of kidney trouble when an operation was said by the physician to be necessary, and because of which I had been refused by an insurance company. I was also healed of weak eyes, which rendered the wearing of glasses a necessity, and what seems to me most wonderful, of a chronic trouble that had seemed to be a part of my existence, and which caused me such agony that in childhood, when in the paroxysms, I would scream until the neighbors a long distance away would hear me. The pain, which came upon me at irregular but never-failing intervals, was with me through all my life until two years ago, so that I knew nothing of existence except accompanied by it. Physicians were consulted: gallons of medicine were taken, but nothing was ever found that made the trouble any less severe. One physician said, not many years ago, "Well, you say you always have had it, and I guess you always will have it." At the time he made this remark I had drifted back to medicine after the healing of myself and sons, nine years previous. This verdict served to arouse me, and I instantly thought, "I will not suffer from it always while the understanding Christian Science is for us."

From that time I turned away entirely from medicine and came to Christian Science wholly and unreservedly; but it was five years later that this special trouble was destroyed. It had always seemed so real to me that I had not the courage to try to destroy it until at last I saw that it was disobedient and dishonest for a Christian Scientist to be harboring any such lie as this; so, the next time it manifested itself I calmly and obediently declared the truth. In an hour the pain had ceased and it has never appeared since. No one, who has not been freed from some life-long horror can understand my feeling of gratitude for deliverance from even this one evil.

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