Testimony of Healing May 21, 1904 Issue

It is with feelings of deepest gratitude to God and to our...

JULIA GOULD MOFFATT

It is with feelings of deepest gratitude to God and to our Leader that I give my testimony in regard to Christian Science. I had been a worker in the ministry for twenty years, having been ordained in an orthodox denomination, and God blessed my work both as a pastor and an evangelist. I was always ready to go at any call, and it was while I was very active in the work that my health failed. For three years I had been compelled almost to give up preaching. I felt at times that the harvest was indeed great, but the laborers few, and I hoped to be again able to work. Every effort I made, however, only left me more unfitted, and my physician told me I could not preach any more for a long time, if ever. I asked God to remove the great longing to help in the work of Christ if there was no more for me to do, and I then had a season of rest, but I grew steadily worse until my physician and friends gave up all hope of my ever being much better.

At this time a dear friend who had come to Christian Science came to see me. She had known me when I was engaged in church work. She told me of Christian Science. but I said I did not know anything about it and had regarded it as a sort of side issue leading away from the true Christian life. She explained it to me in such a plain, simply way that I began to heed what she said, and when she told me that it meant a better understanding of God's word and more of Christ in my life: that it was better than blind belief,—it was a certain knowledge,—how those words thrilled me. A new light came to my inmost consciousness, and I said if that is what Christian Science is, I want it, and I will have it.

My physical condition did not enter my mind, but anything that would give me more of Christ was what I wanted. I accepted it for spiriutal help and was healed bodily at once, and while at that time I had been taking several remedies, among them the most powerful heart remedies known, I have never used any material remedy since. Truth has made me free, and as I think of that wonderful work it seems to me that the words of Thomas are fitting for me: "My Lord and my God."

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