Testimony of Healing February 18, 1905 Issue

In the hope that some one may find encouragement to...

John M. Hall

In the hope that some one may find encouragement to seek help through Christian Science, I gladly and gratefully give this testimony. I had heard of Christian Science some months before accepting it, in fact some of my relatives had been healed thereby.

A year ago last February I was led to give Christian Science a trial. I called upon a practitioner, while visiting relatives in Chicago, and after a short talk on the fundamentals of the religion and its claim that the healing power of God is at hand now, as in the days of the early Christians, I decided to give it a trial. At that time I was very miserable, suffering from almost every ill to which mortals are subject. During the treatment that followed I was healed of many small ailments, and I immediately began the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy. As the truth is opened up to me, and I gain a more thorough spiritual understanding, all other troubles are leaving me. Through the study of our text-book, the Bible has become a book I love to read, and from which I now can gain understanding; "whereas I was blind, now I see." It is the greatest blessing of all to be able to see spiritually; it has indeed placed all things in a new light. My constant and unceasing prayer is for greater light and understanding.

There is one demonstration I feel I must relate. There was to be a lecture on Christian Science in our city, and I had been looking forward with great pleasure to the coming of that evening, as I had never heard a lecture on the subject now nearest my thought. The morning arrived, and with it a sense of severe suffering from an old ailment which the physicians had named neuralgia of the stomach and heart. I immediately denied the reality of the ailment, and read my Bible and Science and Health and thought of every good passage I could recall in both, but with little avail. I would become a little better, to have another attack worse than the previous; and so it continued until three o'clock in the afternoon. I feared that it would prevent me from hearing the lecture, and presently the pain became so great I felt I could endure it no longer. I realized that I had not the understanding to meet it myself, so I sent a note to my teacher. I took up my Bible and read some beautiful and soothing passages. In less than an hour from the time the note was delivered all manifestation of error had entirely disappeared. I was able to attend the lecture and enjoy it.

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