Testimony of Healing November 26, 1904 Issue

I do not know how long I should have suffered had it not...

Philena Matteson

I do not know how long I should have suffered had it not been for Christian Science, which shows the nothingness of the pains and agonies of sense. The more material remedies I took the more hopeless I was. I learned, however, that my suffering was not bodily but mental, and I now see that all this time God was answering my secret prayers, and I was gradually coming into the truth, though not aware of how much there was in store for me. I suffered from infancy until I was about forty years old. I had never heard of Christian Science, but had tried every material remedy and had given them all up.

A lady took me to visit some of her friends in the country one day, and the way I then heard the Scriptures explained made me feel there was something for me that I had not known before. I was told that these people were Christian Scientists, and I thought that name was so grand. At my first opportunity I asked one of them what I could do to get an understanding of the thought that she had, and she told me that I had to read, and that she would loan me a book until I could buy one. I began to read, and it just seemed like raindrops on a wilted flower. I did not ask for treatment, as I did not know how the healing was done. I was very much under size, and by my glorious uplifting my body responded, and a new sense of life sprang up in me, as it were. I rejoiced as never before, and I have been able to overcome every trouble by realizing that "Divine Love always has met, and always will meet, every human need" (Science and Health, p. 494).

May all earnest seekers after truth find this way out of the material into spiritual light. I have been so blessed that it seems like a new world to me. I cannot be grateful enough for this truth that makes us free, and enables us to overcome every difficulty. I do thank God and our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for the light and liberty that she has brought to us, which enables us to walk in the footsteps of our Master.

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