Testimony of Healing October 1, 1904 Issue

One day last October, while walking through the beautiful...

Lottie W. Downe

One day last October, while walking through the beautiful woods, I picked up a spray of poison ivy. When I saw what it was, I quickly threw it on the ground. On the following day I suffered from headache, and during the night the pain increased in severity. In the morning I could scarcely open my right eye, and on looking in the mirror, I saw two dark, swollen crimson streaks on my face under the affected eye; then I remembered touching the poison ivy, and I was overcome by fear. Nineteen years ago, I had been poisoned in the same way, and for some years the eruption appeared annually. Though I suffered much during those periodical attacks, my suffering at this time was more acute, as blood-poisoning now affected my hand; all the right side of the face was swollen, and the inflammation was spreading to the other side of the face. In the morning, I telegraphed for help, which I received immediately. I felt like a little child in my dependence upon our Father-Mother God, and as I experienced this sweet relief I sang Mrs. Eddy's beautiful hymn, "O' er waiting harpstrings of the mind" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 396).

In a few days every trace of the eruptive disfiguration had disappeared, and the place affected by blood-poisoning changed in hue from black to a natural flesh color.

From the age of ten I read the Bible, and always wished to understand Genesis and Revelation, but gave up the study in despair, until Christian Science as Love's sunlight into my heart and life. The Lesson-Sermons are a daily help and comfort. I realize that I am surrounded by the Love that casts out fear.

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