Testimony of Healing November 11, 1905 Issue

Divine Love does indeed supply all our needs

Anna DeLind Karseboom

Divine Love does indeed supply all our needs. My son, fifteen years of age, was taken ill with all the symptoms of typhoid pneumonia. The veil of material sense was so thick that the divine idea seemed to be completely hidden from me, and although I had almost from the first, since studying Christian Science, been able to make my own demonstrations, this time I seemed to be quite willing to stand aside and let some one else do the work, when suddenly I recollected that I had not even tried to help the boy, but was in every way contributing to the weaknesses and burdens of materiality which were now holding him in bondage.

At once I began work, by first casting out the fear which held me down, and then I was able to take my seat by his bedside and treat him. Hardly was I seated when he fell into a quiet sleep, from which he awoke feeling somewhat better. The following two days were trying ones, but on the third day he made his final exit from bed. That evening he ate a hearty supper, and at about eleven o'clock he sat down to a lunch, then went to sleep. In a few days he was in his usual place in school, although he was so deaf that he could accomplish but little there. I kept on treating him, and in less than two weeks his hearing was wholly restored.

When asked by friends for what I came into Christian Science, I think I can truthfully say, for everything. It was first brought to my notice a little more than four years ago, soon after I had returned from a health-seeking excursion of almost three years in the southern States. Instead of accepting the truth, I reviled and laughed at it, but "sorrow ends the laughter of fools." The following year I was forced to ask for treatment for my son, who was suffering from a disease which brought great anxiety to me. His recovery awakened an interest in Christian Science, and I borrowed a copy of Science and Health and commenced to study it. The result was that I soon began to demonstrate what I had learned. A chronic complaint, from which I had suffered since childhood, and for which I had used so much opium in thirteen years that my last physician had told me I was threatened with insanity, was the first to leave me. I had worn glasses for twelve years, and these were soon laid aside. I had all my life suffered from laryngitis and a bad cough, but these, too, were soon over come. My husband had been subject to severe bleeding of the nose all his life, and this left him after a year's study of Christian Science. With all this to encourage me the "little book" soon became my daily companion. In Christian Science I have found the pearl of great price. In sickness it is our physician. In cases of accident, and these were many during my first year of study, it was our surgeon. In an hour of bereavement, grief, and desertion, it became the still, small voice which said, "I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." It has also helped us in a financial way, for our bill for doctors and medicine would run from one to fourteen dollars a week, not mentioning the hundreds of dollars we spent for travel, all of which can now be used in the family. I have also been able in a small way to help others and my heart goes out in gratitude to God, and to our dear Leader, who has given to the world a religion which is raising so many from lives of bondage to sin, sickness, and selfishness to lives of purity and usefulness, through the spiritual understanding of the Bible.

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