Testimony of Healing May 20, 1905 Issue

The beauty and truth of Christian Science were revealed...

Grace Rogers Knapp

The beauty and truth of Christian Science were revealed to me just six years ago, and the revelation has been growing in my thought ever since. Science and Health was given me by a relative who was healed six months before. We knew she had been desperately ill and that she went as a last resort to Boston and after six weeks returned home very much improved. The healing continued until she was entirely well. This of course interested the entire family, and we began to inquire what had wrought the miracle. Then my aunt, the one healed, gave me a copy of our beloved text-book, and I began to study it as I never had studied any other book. I must have been ready for it, and I eagerly drank in the truth, and soon began trying to demonstrate a little for myself. The symptoms of a disease I had had from early childhood began to be alarmingly worse, but only for a few minutes did I entertain the suggestion of going to see my specialist in New York. I put the thought from me, saying to myself, "Does he know more about me than God does?" Soon after, the way was opened for me to spend the winter in a distant city and receive Christian Science treatment. My healing was very slow, although facial neuralgia, which had tormented me for several years, yielded immediately. I returned home in April, apparently but little better, yet I was determined to stick to Christian Science. I had not improved any under materia medica, and was convinced that God alone could heal me. I wrote for treatment to the practitioner who had treated my aunt, and in less than two weeks I awoke one morning to the fact that I was free and well. The disease had disappeared, and there never has been the slightest return of it since. But far more than the wonderful healing of the body do I value the spiritual experience I have had. God now seems near and dear as never before, and the Bible is an interesting and inspiring book to me since "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" has opened my eyes to see and understand its meaning.

I often wonder if we begin to appreciate the value and marvelous import of this understanding of Christ, Truth, which our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, has given to us and to the world. I wish to express my gratitude to God that He gave us our Leader, who has reaffirmed and demonstrated the truth Jesus brought us. Constant proofs are being given me that Christian Science expresses the power of divine Love to heal and save the world.

Grace Rogers Knapp, Westerly, R. I.

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