Testimony of Healing May 6, 1905 Issue

To tell of all the benefits received through Christian Science...

Isabel S. Coleman

To tell of all the benefits received through Christian Science would be impossible, for their name is legion; but some of the good things which this blessed truth has brought to me stand out prominently, and for these and all I am deeply grateful to God and to our dear Leader. These blessings have changed the whole atmosphere of my life and enabled me to realize, in a measure, "God with us." For several years before being treated in Christian Science, I had read Science and Health, and was healed of a number of ailments which had seemed to be realities.

There came a time when I needed treatment, and as a result of patient, loving work I was healed of a sense of weariness. I had taught school for about twenty years, and could not work through a day without extreme fatigue. Words fail to tell what the blessing of relief from that one trouble has been to me. Tasks which under error's bondage had been performed with toil, under the new sense of freedom which belongs to God's child became a delight and recreation, and harmony was realized under the very conditions which had before proven so irksome.

At the age of sixteen I had joined an orthodox church and supposed I was looking to God for help, until shown by Christian Science that I had always been leaning on a human arm. The lesson, though bitter at the time, was salutary in its effects, as truth always is; and nothing but divine Love, realized and reflected, could have shown me where to go for help. After this healing, error seemed to manifest itself in the form of doubts, but Truth again furnished the antidote. One Sunday it was my privilege to be at The Mother Church and listen to a message delivered by our Leader. Her words I shall never forget, nor shall I ever cease to be grateful for the healing in my thought which followed them. I have never seen the words in print, but they seemed to be written indelibly in my consciousness, with no possibility of their being effaced. "O words with heavenly comfort fraught!" they indeed assured me that God does remove burdens and heals the sick and the sinful.

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