Testimony of Healing September 24, 1904 Issue

I desire to express my gratitude for the wonderful blessings...

Frank E. Woodley

I desire to express my gratitude for the wonderful blessings Christian Science has shown me, to express my love for our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and to thank God that she was so well prepared to bring again to the world this beautiful truth, and that she has been so wonderfully led and supported in holding it up to the world so that we all might know it and be free.

Christian Science was first brought to me through the healing of my wife in three treatments, when beyond the aid of materia medica. Notwithstanding this wonderful blessing, I was not convinced, but suffered on six months longer with serious stomach trouble, nervous prostration, palpitation of the heart, piles, fistula, fistula abscess, and carbuncles which it seemed impossible to check, before I would even consent to accept treatment, and was seemingly driven to accept it on account of my wretched condition and terrible suffering. I was partially relieved after two or three treatments, and my lesser troubles were one by one lost sight of but the full relief was not acquired until after six months of study and labor on the part of myself and my practitioner. Then the light came to me all at one. It was brought to me by a thought expressed in the Sentinel. showing that now are we free, now are we healed, now are we the children of God,—a God of Love, who gives nothing but good, that all we have to do is to accept, to understand this; to know it continually; and that our work is to seek "first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness," as commanded by Jesus, that all good may come to us. As I realized this truth I arose from my chair, went out into the open air and walked more than half an hour, thanking God, whereas I had walked very little in many months before, and that little at the expense of severe pain.

The trouble was met, at last I was free, and I remained free nearly a year, when by allowing business cares and hurry to take possession of me and keep me from my study, I forgot to seek first the kingdom of God, forgot to know continually that God is all Love. It then became hard for me to realize the allness of God and to deny the possibility of evil. I became unhappy, unsuccessful in my business, and this state was harder to overcome than the former, but, thank God, through the kindness of Christian Science friends, the help of study and a constant desire to know Truth, I am again set free. Again the peace that passeth all understanding is mine, again I am seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all things good are being added unto me,—success in business and in all things else. I am very thankful.—Frank E. Woodley, Los Angeles. Cal.

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