Testimony of Healing March 12, 1904 Issue

It is now some few years since "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

Lillie Olin Burckett with contributions from Alice Morgan

It is now some few years since "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy was placed in the hands of a member of our family, who was known by all our friends as a confirmed invalid, with the suggestion that at least it could do no harm. The book was read indifferently at first, then with increasing interest and power, and finally the quiet, silent, and effectual work of Truth was made manifest, by the invalid's restoration to health so that she could do things which she had not done for twenty-five years.

This silent, impersonal, and Christ-like work appealed to me as the greatest evidence of "Emmanuel, God with us." I had ever seen, and led me to look further into the subject myself. The reading and study of the text-book was soon followed by class instruction, and it was with a feeling of deep gratitude and the consciousness of having found "the pearl of great price," that I worked in the Master's vineyard and proved for myself and others "the power of the Word" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 398), when spoken with authority.

Those who have not been consciously healed of what the world terms incurable disease, may often be tempted, perhaps, to think that their testimony is not worth writing, and yet I know that a habit overcome, a higher standard of life reached, a conscious breaking of the thousand and one laws of false material sense through the power of Truth, is no less a proof of God's power to heal than is the destruction of a cancer. For several years when testifying to what Christian Science has been to me and what is has done for others, I frequently prefaced my remarks with the statement that "I did not come to Christian Science for the physical healing," and I know now that was said with a degree of pride which one day called for destruction, for we learn in Christian Science that every phase of mortal belief, physical, mental, and moral, must be met and overcome.

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