Testimony of Healing April 29, 1905 Issue

When Christian Science was first brought to my notice...

Laura A. Yourtee

When Christian Science was first brought to my notice some eighteen years ago, I was sorely in need of help, both physically and spiritually, I was suffering from a severe bronchial affection of years' standing, many times losing my voice entirely for days, and I was constantly trying every material remedy I heard of, but with no relict. I was also hungering and thirsting for a better understanding of God and my relation to Him. Having had two husbands who were clergymen, and having been in the Methodist itinerancy over twenty years, I was well versed in theology and had enjoyed all there was in their creeds. At times I had much spiritual light and comfort, for I was living up to my highest understanding. For a number of years before I heard of Christian Science, I was much interested in the healing of disease, and in reading Jesus' commands to his disciples, to preach the gospel and heal the sick, and I believed it was our privilege to be healed of our physical infirmities as well as to have our sins forgiven. Occasionally I would hear of some one being healed by faith, and I have spent bours praying for the faith that would heal the sick.

As a minister's wife I was often called to pray for the sick, and I have gone and with prayer laid my hand on the sick, to try and carry into the understanding of Christian Science as taught in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. Since then I have had abundant proof that the healing power of Truth and Love is just as efficacious to-day as when Jesus was here on earth. I have seen sufferers, after nineteen years of invalidism, after the doctors had said they had done all they could for them,—with two or three treatments, these have been raised up, made strong to walk a mile daily for treatment. Others, in the last stages of consumption, expecting that every day would be the last of their earthly life, —these have been able to rise from bed in a few hours and to do their ordinary housework with ease.

The spiritual light, comfort, and understanding I now have, in comparison with my experience in the old theology, is so great I hardly know how to tell of it. It seems as if, in the old thought, I was out in the vestibule, praying, and trying to believe, for many desired blessings, but receiving very few. Now it seems as if the doors of the inner sanctuary had been thrown open wide, and I have entered into the holy place of understanding and realization; I have learned the true basis of all prayer, and there is no more anxious waiting for answers to prayer which never come. The answer is already here and I only have to take and appropriate it.

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