Testimony of Healing April 30, 1904 Issue

I have so often found help from the articles in the Sentinel...

M. J.

I have so often found help from the articles in the Sentinel and Journal that I should like to tell of my healing, hoping that it may induce others to come to Christian Science for that help which it never fails to give, if our faith be strong and reliance on God absolute.

It is nearly six years since I heard of Christian Science. Circumstances led me to inquire into it, and I attended a Sunday and a Wednesday evening meeting. It seemed to me a very beautiful religion, though its claims were such that I could not then understand them; still I felt that anything that brought happiness and health where misery and disease seemed so real, was something to look into with an open mind, so I bought Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.

The reading of this book determined me to give up all material medicines; this was a demonstration in itself, as I was a slave to drugs of all kinds. I have touched none since. A few months after I began to study. I was called upon to nurse one dear to me, through a severe illness. I was always considered a delicate woman, and the nursing was very arduous and trying, but even then the truth I learned in Christian Science helped me to overcome all fatigue in a marvelous manner; but I was to be tried still further. I discovered one night that a growth had appeared in a place where for some time I had felt pain. The nature of it was such that for the moment I was overwhelmed with fear. It presented the appearance of disease which I always dreaded even to think of, namely cancer. I knew that if I consulted a doctor and found it to be such, and an operation necessary, that this news would perhaps be fatal for the patient I was nursing under the doctor. Then I felt that now was the time to prove my trust in God and to prove what I felt was the truth in Christian Science. I longed for human sympathy, and had a temptation to tell one whom I knew would give it, but that seemed selfish, so I wrote for help to a practitioner in London. I then lived far from there. I prayed God to give me the strength to bear silently all that might be before me. The healing was not very quick, but it was sure, and in sixteen weeks there was nothing to be seen or felt, and I knew that God was All in all.

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