Testimony of Healing August 20, 1904 Issue

About four years ago, the light of Christian Science was...

L. T. C. H.

About four years ago, the light of Christian Science was shed upon my consciousness. From my present standpoint,—in its glorious light,—I look back and marvel how I lived through all the heartaches, sorrow, and sickness, which I had endured for years. For sixteen years I was a great sufferer from so-called female weaknesses. I was a great never free from backache and other pains. For weeks and months at a time, I did not leave the house, and most of the time I spent upon my couch. Everything tired me. I can hardly conceive of one as having less strength than I appeared to have. Physicians had done all in their power for me, and still I was no better; I only turned to Christian Science because there seemed nothing else to do. I knew nothing of it, and had no faith in it, but in my case, as in thousands of others, man's extremity was God's opportunity.

The practitioner to whom I applied was a sweet woman, and to my question whether I could be helped, she replied, "Yes, God heals all things." I asked for treatment, and on that same day all pain ceased. I took four more treatments, not understanding how I was healed, and fearing to let go of my practitioner before I could realize the blessed truth that I was well. Then I started out to prove it and walked a mile, besides doing some shopping, and returned home as fresh as when I started out.

The Bible had been a closed book to me all my life, but I purchased one that day, and the next four months my time was given entirely to its study in connection with our dear text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Through the understanding derived from this study, I have overcome many things for which I have never been treated. I have been enabled to leave off glasses, which I had worn for fifteen years, and to use my eyes continually for all kinds of work. The physical healing was to me a blessed thing, but the most precious lesson which I have learned in Christian Science, is how to love my enemies. In that line I think I have made my most wonderful demonstrations. I have been able to help others in the destruction of many forms of error, among which are tuberculosis, gastritis, cancer-tumor, nervous prostration, bronchitis, and many simple forms of disease.

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