Testimony of Healing September 3, 1904 Issue

I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing

Helen M. Palmer

I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing. I always felt a dislike for being thought an invalid, and generally kept my ailments mostly to myself; but I partook of the beliefs that are so common, that sickness and death are necessary to bring man into immortality beyond the grave. About six years ago, however, a Christian Science student who was visiting in our neighborhood read the Lesson-Sermon for the benefit of a few who met together to hear it, and I found there was something which would satisfy the desire I had for a better understanding of the Scriptures.

I had studied the Bible in connection with the International Sunday School lessons, and had a vague idea of its sacredness; but when I commenced to study it systematically, as Christian Science teaches, I found how little I understood it. About the first discovery I made was that the promises the Bible contains were but half believed, because it was supposed that they were to be fulfilled in some future, far-off place, called heaven. But when I began to study Science and Health, it was truly a Key to the Scriptures, and a revelation of what Life is, and where and what is heaven. The Bible is becoming more sacred to me as I learn to read it with its spiritual meaning which God is revealing to us through the teaching of our text-book, and the daily study of the Bible, and Science and Health is to me indeed a feast. I find, too, that the ailments which troubled me are slowly but surely dropping into nothingness as spiritual truth is apprehended, and a sense of joy and peace is taking the place of the unrest of former times.

I feel humbly thankful that God has led me into Christian Science. I receive great help from the articles and testimonies in our periodicals, for which I am very grateful. Nearly a years ago I received class instruction from a student of Mrs. Eddy, and I am very thankful. My greatest desire is so to reflect Truth and Love that I may thus make manifest my gratitude to God and to our Leader.

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