Testimony of Healing June 17, 1905 Issue

I have long felt the promptings of divine Love to express...

Carrie Hall Archer

I have long felt the promptings of divine Love to express my gratitude for the many blessings I have received from the study and application of the truth as taught in Science and Health. In my wanderings through the wilderness of materiality, when my way seemed hedged in on either side by mountains, and the enemy behind, my pathway has been opened through the Red Sea of difficulty, and by the power of Truth, as revealed in Christian Science, I have been enabled to pass through dry-shod. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" has so opened my understanding of the Bible that these two books have become my pillar of fire by night and cloud by day, leading me safely through every difficulty which has confronted me on my journey toward the promised land of perfect harmony.

I was led to investigate Christian Science by the need of physical healing, and this was granted me in a most beautiful manner through the reflection of Love by the practitioner on whom I called for help. It destroyed a severely cankered condition of the throat in one night. From that time I began thirsting for the water of Life which heals sin as it heals sickness. My progress has been what might seem slow, but I know how the old bottle is filled with false beliefs in the power of medicine and in a corporeal God, but the new wine of Spirit is surely transforming me, and the filling of a new bottle with new wine inspires me with courage to go on. From a life in which medicine appeared to be a daily necessity for chronic ailments, Christian Science has enabled me to live the last six years without the use of one drop. All the sickness which has come to us in that time has been overcome by the understanding we have gained of the Christ-cure. Among some of the diseases which have been thus overcome for different members of our family, I will mention dysentery, scarlatina, the grip, chicken-pox, sprains, croup, etc. As we do not live near a practitioner, the power of Truth alone to heal was proven to us on many occasions in a very wonderful manner, and words are inadequate to express our gratitude to God for this deliverance. Only a parent can fully realize the situation I was placed in when on a visit, miles from any Christian Scientist, among friends who did not comprehend this truth, and whose thought was not in sympathy with what they understood Christian Science to be. I had to meet an attack of croup for our only child, to see his eyes fill with tears as he struggled to breathe; to know that his fear was trying to master his childish faith in God's power to help him at once; and to refuse the material aid of the dear relatives who did not understand how we could trust God to heal such a case. This showed us that we must prove our faith by our works. We used our understanding and the word of Truth, declaring that God is a present help in trouble, that He was present and was able to heal and overcome anything and everything which seemed to oppose His power.

To see my boy lie down, his fear destroyed, to see him go peacefully to sleep, his breathing normal, was a demonstration of the allness of God that I shall never forget. Here let me ask any one who thinks that we love our text-book and its author too much: Is it a marvel that one who has had so much forgiven (destroyed) should love much? Did space allow I should like to tell of other wonderful evidences of God's power and willingness to heal, which it has been my blessing to receive. For the healing of sickness I humbly acknowledge myself debtor, and shall utterly fail to express in words my gratitude, knowing that deeds not words are the truest prayer of thanksgiving.

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