Testimony of Healing November 5, 1904 Issue

It is now seventeen years since my attention was first...

Sarah M. Van Camp

It is now seventeen years since my attention was first called to Christian Science through the healing of a friend who had been a great sufferer from asthma. Her case was pronounced asthmatic consumption, therefore hopeless. In six weeks' time she was transformed into a well and happy woman, having gained twenty-five pounds during this short interval.

The healing seemed very wonderful to me, and in my extremity, as I had been a great sufferer from a complication of diseases, I concluded to call on the same practitioner for help. I only sought the physical healing, but I was willing to be obedient and do whatever was required of me to get the best results. In this mental attitude I soon began to improve, and in one week's treatment I considered myself well. Catarrh of thirty years' standing, chronic sore throat, weak and sore lungs, liyer and stomach troubles, rheumatism, and many other ailments all disappeared like dream shadows,—all went out into their native nothingness.

I shall never forget the beautiful spiritual uplifting that came to me at that time. I soon procured the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, for I must know from whence this healing power came. I read and reread it, and soon understood something of the Principle and rule, which are absolute and unchangeable,—a demonstrable truth, the problems each individual must work out for himself. In applying my understanding of this Principle in my life work, I have found it an ever-present help in trouble. If there have been seeming failures, these have been due to personal sense, not Principle, which is always right. In the spring after I was healed, I entered a class taught by one of Mrs. Eddy's students.

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