Testimony of Healing May 21, 1904 Issue

I have just returned from a visit with friends in my old...

MABEL P. HILL

I have just returned from a visit with friends in my old home which I left four years ago. I did not realize what progress I had made, until I went back and looked over the years which had intervened. I came to Topeka with my husband and two children, the main purpose being to seek health. I was not, however, seeking Christian Science, for I knew nothing of it. but I found nothing else that would help me. I shrank from having an operation performed, and was praying constantly, to the best of my understanding, that I be delivered from the bondage of sickness. My prayers were answered and I was lifted up out of the depths of sickness and despair.

It makes me shudder to recall that dark picture again; I would not do it, but for the purpose of giving an encouraging word to those struggling for the light of Truth. The physical troubles I had were said to be incurable except with the knife, and that was uncertain. As I said, my prayers were answered and help was sent to me in Christian Science. I felt the soothing, healing power in the first treatment, but I battled hard against the thought of material aid, until I felt the complete disappearance of those dreadful conditions of many years' standing.

I cannot tell how happy I was when I first felt the comforting influence of Truth. I asked for something to read that I could understand, and as I read it seemed as if I had suddenly been uplifted to a mountain peak. I can never forget the encouraging words my practitioner gave me, and the way he helped me to understand my perfect relationship to good, God. Sometimes I would think it was all too good to be true, but I felt the sustaining power of God, and the more I studied the more I knew that Christian Science is all there is, because it teaches that God is the one and only power,—the one Mind.

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