Testimony of Healing April 8, 1905 Issue

It is now five years since I first heard of Christian Science

Blanche C. Robinson

It is now five years since I first heard of Christian Science. Eight years prior to that time we were living in the south of Louisiana, where I was constantly sick with malarial fever which later developed into lung trouble. I traveled from one place to another looking for health, but could not find it. Finally the doctors advised me to come to Colorado, to a higher altitude, which we did. As soon as I arrived in Denver I got worse, for I had hemorrhages of the lungs and was in a serious condition. My doctor did all he could for me, and when I was able to walk around again he advised us to get out of the city and go into the mountains to live. I was willing to do anything if only I could get well. Arrangements were made, and when we arrived at our destination it was a wild, rocky-looking place and we were twenty miles away from the nearest town. My doctor, knowing the location of the country, took care to provide me with an assortment of medicines which I might need, and I took great care of them, for we could not to town every day.

Having been accustomed to city life, I used to think that such a lonely life was like that of a hermit. I found my only pleasure and comfort in prayer, but it seemed never to be answered. One day a lady came to our cabin on an errand, and she was so fresh and rosy that I liked to look at her. After a little conversation she asked me if I had ever heard of Christian Science. I said, no, and asked, "What is Christian Science?" She told me how she had been healed, and asked if I wanted to read something about Christian Science. She sent me some copies of the Sentinel, and I began to read. The first article I read was a great revelation to me, for I had been taught from childhood that it was God who sent us sickness and tribulations. As I read on I found some references to Science and Health, and I wondered what sort of a book it was. Next time I met the lady I asked if she had Science and Health, and she said, yes, but that she needed it every day. I told her I would like to borrow it. She finally loaned me her copy for two weeks, and I was confident that I could read it through in that time, but I was disappointed, for those two weeks were the busiest I had since I lived there. The lady was prompt in sending for her book, so I sent for a copy at once.

At last it came and I felt very happy. Day by day it became more precious to me. It satisfied my hunger, and midnight many times found me up, reading Science and Health. When I got to the chapter on "Prayer" (old edition) I was made whole. I could never tell in words what happened, but became conscious that I was healed, and it was so clear to me that I got up at once and gathered all my medical books and prescriptions and destroyed them, with all my medicines, and I have not used a drop of medicine since. When I look in the Journal and see the number of Christian Science practitioners in the different cities where I had been and never heard a word about Christian Science, those words out of the hymnal,—

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