Testimony of Healing March 18, 1905 Issue

I desire to give my grateful testimony to the healing and...

Edith E. Martin

I desire to give my grateful testimony to the healing and saving power of Christian Science. It is now a little more than a year since I first heard of it. Prior to that time I thought I was a Christian, but what a different insight Christian Science has given me of the truth that makes us free. I found great difficulty in understanding Science and Health, until I tried to practise its teachings; then I realized that God is working in us to will and to do, of His good pleasure. I cannot say that I have been healed of any severe sickness, but a new happiness has come into my life through the small understanding that I have, and my one great desire is to know more of this grand and practical religion. From a child I had spells of great depression, feeling that the world was a very hard and unkind place to live in, and looking forward to death as a friend that was to set me at liberty. Now I know that liberty is a present fact, for divine Love is ever-present and is all powerful. I should like to mention an experience that came to me when I had only read a very little in Science and Health. It was one evening last summer; I was lighting a lamp that was placed in a bracket on the walk. Being hurried. I jumped on a chair to reach the lamp, and struck my head a sharp blow on a projection of the bracket. The force of the blow made a cut which bled a good deal. I was alone at the time and began to feel rather faint when the blood ran over my face, but I thought that this was an opportunity to prove the truth of what I had been reading. The words of Scripture, "I am the Lord that healeth thee," came to me with all the impressiveness of an audible voice. I then remembered that I had been reading in Science and Health, and I argued that this was only a false material sense and had nothing to do with God. All the throbbing and pain stopped instantly, and a beautiful uplifted feeling took possession of me. I continued my work, and never had any more trouble from the cut. I have had many other proofs since then that Christian Science is a message from God, and that a patient seeking for Truth does set us free from the fear of poverty and sickness, and more than all, it is uncovering and destroying sin. I am full of gratitude to God, who has given us all good things, and my thoughts go out in love to all the world, especially to all faithful Christian Scientists who, in seeking "first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness," bring blessing to themselves and all around them. That I love Mrs. Eddy, goes without saying.

Edith E. Martin, London, England.

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