Testimony of Healing June 3, 1905 Issue

For five months I have been trying to give my testimony...

Annie M. Bayles

For five months I have been trying to give my testimony to what seemed wonderful at the time. One day, when my husband had just driven away from the house to take our two little girls to school, four miles distant, I felt a numbness creeping over me. I was out in the yard, and wanted to get to the house, but feared I should fall, as I seemed to be losing the use of my limbs. Oh, what could I do! If only my husband and children were beside me! I felt that I was dying, and it was such an awful thought to die without seeing them again. My mother-in-law was in sight of the house on horseback, but I could not call her, as my tongue was swollen, and I could only whisper. I seemed to be paralyzed all over.

I began to repeat the text, "Perfect love casteth out fear." My fear was intense, overpowering, when I tried to talk and I found that I could not say a word so it could be understood. I wanted to reach the house and get Science and Health to read, but I was getting so drowsy and numb when I got in, that I could scarcely keep from lying down. However, I felt that if I did, I would be lying there dead when my husband came back.

I think I never before felt so entirely alone with God. I prayed until I seemed to feel Him near me. I knew He was my only help. All at once I remembered the promise, "They shall speak with new tongues." I knew that God is good that He is all in all, and that my trouble was all in mortal mind. It was not very long before I felt as well as ever, and I realized that this error had returned to its native nothingness.

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