Testimony of Healing October 8, 1904 Issue

When I first sought Christian Science, it was for the...

M. A. H.

When I first sought Christian Science, it was for the physical healing alone; for when I was healed of an attack of appendicitis, it was the fear of the knife that impelled me to try this means of cure, as my kind physician had said I must resort to an operation. I was healed a few hours after treatment began, and having had two previous attacks I was amazed at the rapid cure, this time without the external weakness and after effects which had followed in former attacks. This physical healing, however, was to be the smallest of my blessings. The following year I read Science and Health and tried to realize the truth it contained and at the same time attend an orthodox church of which I had been an active member for seventeen years. During this period there came a time of need other and deeper than the physical, and never shall I forget the feeling of peace and assurance that came when the practitioner who so patiently had been pointing the way all these months said, "You have come to the right source; Christian Science meets all our needs."

From this time on it has been a joy to feel I could say with Paul, "I know whom I have believed," and with Job, "I know that my redeemer liveth." Hitherto, I had read both the promises and the commands of the Bible in a vague way, hoping for their realization in a dim future, inasmuch as I could see no prospect of their fulfilment in the present, while through Christian Science I had found the promises demonstrable here and now. The words, "Lo, I am with you alway," had a new meaning, for I had also found freedom from a state of unhappiness bordering on despair that I had known as a bosom companion for over ten years. Leaving my old church home to join the Christian Science church, I lost nothing, for all of help and light I had then I still have, and the truth of the words in Science and Health, page 494: "Divine Love always has met, and always will meet, every human need," has been proven over and over again, in the healing of physical ailments for myself and many friends, as well as the bringing of harmony out of chaos. The way leading out of darkness into light has not been smooth, and more than once, when many miles away from a Christian Scientist, a battle with error has been fought and won by the reading of Science and Health or by the study of a Sunday Lesson-Sermon.

These experiences, though severe at the time, have led me to know that God is "a very present help in trouble." The seemingly bitter antagonism of relatives and friends has given place to kindly tolerance, and in some cases to the study and investigation of Christian Science. To mention a few of the instances of healing in connection with the foregoing will only be touching upon what I have personally "seen and heard." I was healed in one day of an injury to the knee cap, caused by a fall; whereas, on two previous occasions a similar injury to the same member had caused months of suffering. I have also been healed instantaneously of acute indigestion, and ate a hearty meal within an hour, while previously these attacks meant days and at time weeks of most careful dieting.

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