Testimony of Healing November 19, 1904 Issue

As I have been greatly helped and encouraged by the...

Laura L. Corbin

As I have been greatly helped and encouraged by the reading of other testimonies, I find it a privilege, rather than a duty to obey the words of the Master, who said, "Freely ye have received, freely give." I have the most of our Leader's works, also our periodicals, and derive pleasure and profit from the study of them. We have no Christian Science church here, so have not the helpful influence of church association, but I have an abiding faith that in God's good time the seed will fall on good ground, spring up, increase, and bring forth fruit, the same as it has done in other places.

I would like to say, for the encouragement of those who distribute Christian Science literature in different places, that I was led to the truth by taking up The Christian Science Journal while waiting in a public reception room. I became deeply interested, and from that reading, now six years ago, I feel that I have found the truth as never before in the church of which I was an interested member, and which I still hold in love and respect, as the stepping-stone to the higher and more spiritual truths of Christian Science. I became interested for the physical healing, of which I was greatly in need, as well as the spiritual upbuilding of thought, and it has been my experience that the spiritual is the first necessity, and that the physical healing follows. I feel that it has been one demonstration since coming to the Christ, Truth; not that I can say that I have been able to work out of all the claims of error, but I have to such an extent that I can say Christian Science is an ever-present help in all the conditions of daily life.

In consideration for all the physical and spiritual blessings I have received, I feel there is no better way for me than to make constant endeavor to follow in the faith our Saviour taught. I would express my deep-felt gratitude to Mrs. Eddy, the one whose heart was pure and whose ears were spiritualized to hear the call of Christ Jesus. I also wish to express my love and appreciation of my practitioner, who first told me of the truths of Science and turned my material thought toward the spiritual: and last of those who work so faithfully to send out the different publications into the Field. It is my daily prayer that I may live up to this beautiful truth and bring no discredit upon Christ's teachings.

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