Testimony of Healing October 15, 1904 Issue

I spent one Saturday evening with friends who had classes...

L. M.

I spent one Saturday evening with friends who had classes in two different orthodox Sunday Schools. During teatime one of the girls was stricken with a headache. As we finished tea my friend sighed languidly, "O that Sunday School lesson! I cannot study it to-night, my head aches so badly." I replied, "How strange! Christian Scientists study their Sunday lesson to be healed and find it effectual in proportion to their understanding of its meaning."

I then remembered with gratitude how I had been healed of the grip by the study of the lesson. As I sat down to study one Sunday afternoon, every part of my body ached, but more especially my head, which seemed to throb with each heart beat. I was cold and hot in a moment. When I had finished two citations the symptoms were so augmented that it seemed impossible to sit up any longer. Closing the books, the thought came to me that the healing of that disease was in that lesson, and fear could not keep me from being healed. In one of the remaining citations I found a passage so strong and pure in its diction that it dispelled the diseased belief with a thought of health which became a song of peace,—"Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of God. In ignorance of our God-given rights, we submit to unjust decrees, and the bias of education enforces this slavery. Be no more willing to suffer the illusion that you are sick, or that some disease is developing in the system, than you are to yield to a sinful temptation, on the ground that sin has its necessities" (Science and Health, p. 380). Needless to say, I was healed in a very few minutes and joined in a much relished luncheon, whereas the same symptoms had, in the past, developed into an illness of many days' duration, in spite of prophylactic drugs.

This is but one of the many immediate healings which I have felt since studying Christian Science, and it serves to illustrate the vast difference between a religion with a creed whose adherents leave their lesson until Saturday night, and then prepare it as a task, and a religion with a Principle, whose believers study daily and eagerly the lesson for each successive Sunday.

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