Testimony of Healing March 25, 1905 Issue

It is with deep gratitude and love that I publicly acknowledge...

Minnie Southon

It is with deep gratitude and love that I publicly acknowledge the many benefits derived from my two short years' study of Christian Science and daily striving to put into practice this healing truth. The physical benefits received have been many. I might state that through the kind and loving help of a practitioner here, I have been healed of chronic dyspepsia and constipation which had previously been the source of great misery. I had been treated by many physicians, several of whom I knew to be good, conscientious men who had great sympathy for me, but they acknowledged that my case was beyond their skill, and the only thing each one would recommend was complete change. For two years my only solid food consisted of soda biscuits, two only at a time being the limit of my poor digestion. I was then using the stomach pump, which for six long months was a daily, offensive task. At the same time I was dreadfully melancholy, and God seemed very remote and distant. I was full of distrust and very unhappy, and often had a great desire to die, which I then thought would end my misery. But, thanks be to God, and to our beloved Leader, the dark past is no more, for the healing presence of divine Love has been felt, bringing to my consciousness the sweet assurance that the great and only Physician is still in our midst. I have also been perfectly healed of appendicitis. This was a very painful illness, and presented itself soon after I took up the study of Christian Science. My understanding of this truth was then very small, but it was sufficient to destroy any lingering faith I may have had in drugs, and I turned entirely to divine Love for help, and again with the patient help of the practitioner the trouble was met. Several other physical discomforts have disappeared while I have been absorbed in the study of Science and Health and the weekly Lessons, for which all Christian Scientists are very grateful. They are a constant help, illumining the Scriptures and making the Bible a precious book indeed.

What a grand outlook life presents to me now! If these are the firstfruits of Christian Science, what will the harvest be?

I formerly went to church from a sense of duty, in which I also read my Bible. It was in this condition that Christian Science found me, and it awakened me from this dormant state. Since becoming a member of the Christian Science church, how changed is everything! I love the dear old Bible, for I am ever gaining something from it that sustains and helps me every day. I now consider it not only a duty to go to church, but the greatest privilege, for it is the love of the beautiful and true that draws me. The darkness and distrust of the past are giving place to the glorious light and sweet assurance of the present and the future, and I am now learning how to live, not how to die. It is my daily desire to prove myself a Christian Scientist in my every word and deed, and thus show forth my deep gratitude to God and to our beloved Leader, who is proving so faithful to her great trust.

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