Testimony of Healing May 6, 1905 Issue

Eight years ago I came to California for the climate,...

Lucy A. Bacon

Eight years ago I came to California for the climate, a broken-down, discouraged woman, with a supposedly incurable disease. My father had been an invalid for many years. I was thought to have inherited poor health, and from childhood had never known a day free from pain. As I grew to womanhood my studies and work were at times interrupted by illness and nervous collapse. I was under the treatment of some physician a good part of the time. Finally, while in France studying art, a lung trouble developed which at first made such progress that it seemed doubtful if I would be able to return home. I went to the south of France for the winter and in the spring came to California. After trying the fresh-air cure, living out of doors for several months and finding myself growing worse, to please a relative I submitted to Christian Science treatment. I, however, attached no importance to the treatment, not expecting the least benefit from it. After some time I found myself improving. Then I wished to know what could be producing such a wonderful result, and I began reading the literature. Slowly I grew back to health. Many other ailments disappeared and finally the lung trouble disappeared also.

Soon after I began the study of Christian Science, my attention was held by the teaching on page 240 of Science and Health. Here was the clue I had sought all my life,—the purpose for which to live. I had long desired to find something real and substantial, something to make life worth living, but had found nothing that satisfied, and here was a gleam of light in the darkness. I now saw that the end of life was the reflection of Love. The humblest task became noble with this purpose.

Following this clue, I have for seven years been trying to find the way out of the tangles of the sense dream of life, and up to where divine Love and its manifestation are known as all. Grateful as I am for being free from physical suffering, this sense is swallowed up in the greater gratitude for an ever-unfolding knowledge that God is Love, and He is now and ever expressed.

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