Testimony of Healing February 18, 1905 Issue

I cannot be thankful enough for what Christian Science...

Harriet A. Woodcock

I cannot be thankful enough for what Christian Science has brought to me. Four and a half years ago I was a forlorn and miserable wreck of a girl. My sense of nervousness was so great that I could not keep my body still. For years I had not known what it was to awake in the morning without a severe headache. I was also a sufferer from colds which affected my lungs and voice. Besides these bodily ills, a great sorrow, over what seemed the cruel and useless death of a dearly loved brother, overshadowed me and made me bitter toward a God who was called loving and yet was supposed to be the cause of such trouble. Such a God was no Father to me. When Christian Science was first brought to our house to aid a dear relative, I scoffed at the idea of man's attempting to do what God either could not or would not do. I made the practitioner's efforts much harder than they should have been. I have always been sorry since then that I did not help instead of hinder her. Not long after this I was glad to try the treatments for myself, and although it was a year and a half after I began to be helped by Christian Science before I was free from all the miserable ailments, the time of my slow healing was very peaceful and happy. Other members of our family have grown to love this truth about God and man since then, and I cannot adequately express my own love for it. I am now learning to help others, and there is no work I love so well as that of freeing sufferers from their false sense of things. The instances of healing that have appeared under my earnest work are daily increasing in number and beauty. There is nothing in the world that can make us so happy as to be the instruments of bringing health and peace to those who are miserable.

Miss Harriet A. Woodcock, Troy, N. Y.

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