Testimony of Healing November 5, 1904 Issue

When I began to read The Christian Science Journal...

Emma Rankin

When I began to read The Christian Science Journal I thought it must be the truth, but I was afraid that if I accepted Christian Science I would have to give up my dear orthodox church, so I laid the literature aside and expected never to have anything more to do with it. Four years later, after having for several months taken care of a lady who was considered a nervous physical wreck, I myself was taken to a hospital suffering from severe nervous prostration.

This seemed a very dark hour to me, and I turned to my Bible for solace and comfort, with the thought, I believe that God can make me well. My Bible opened to the ninth chapter of St. John, and, after earnest reading, I felt within my consciousness that somehow I was healed, and that whereas I had been blind, now I could see that God was indeed the Great Physician who healeth all our diseases and cureth our infirmities. When the doctor came in, I unwisely told him of my beautiful experience, thinking that he would be as glad as I was, but, to my amazement, he looked at me very seriously and said, "If you go to studying Christian Science you will lose your mind, and I shall not permit you to go home until you have gone through a course of treatment here." He evidently thought I had already lost my mind, as he immediately called the leading physician of the medical staff to examine me.

The following morning I read this verse from Exodus: "If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I the Lord that healeth thee." I knew that was all the treatment I needed and told the doctor and attendants that I wanted to go home, but they still refused to permit me to go; so one night, at eleven O'clock, I quietly donned my garments and, without my hat, as that had been put away, I silently took my departure. Ever since I can truly say that His word has indeed been "a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." I have been an earnest student of Christian Science ever since, and have had the blessed privilege of class instruction from one of Mrs. Eddy's students. My heart goes out daily in loving gratitude to God for our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for Science and Health, and for all the helpful publications of our Publishing Society.—Emma Rankin, Cincinnati, O.

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