Testimony of Healing July 29, 1905 Issue

I am thankful that through Christian Science I have...

Elizabeth E. Souza

I am thankful that through Christian Science I have gained a fuller knowledge of God. I thank God that He answered the prayer of my dear sister, the desire which she most faithfully and trustingly held for so many years, that the shackles of iniquity might be broken, which bound me to a belief in sin, sickness, and death. I thank Him that I have been enabled to know the omnipotence of divine Mind, through the healing of sickness as well as sin. I thank Him for lifting me out of the desolation of aloneness and raising up for me friends whose pure affection is based upon the understanding of Truth and Love. I thank Him that, to me, the land which was desolate has become as the garden of Eden. I am thankful that I am being gently led step by step into the great white light of Truth, and that some of my friends follow where Love leadeth me.

Those who are longing to bring dear ones into Christian Science, should never grow weary in this well-doing, for in due time they will reap their reward. For ten years my sister prayed for me, and four years ago she offered me Christian Science, but it was like casting pearls before swine, for it was rejected scornfully, and I went my way thinking that I had put its teaching behind me; but it was not behind me, it was right with me, and was loosening, one by one, the shackles of iniquity which bound me to the belief that I was an infidel simply because I could no longer accept the false concept of God which had been given me in my youth, and I knew no other; the belief that poor, frail, fleeting human love was my staff of support and happiness, and that I was subject to the supposed laws of materia medica, that I must have an operation for a second attack of appendicitis, which was healed in two treatments in Christian Science without the loss of a day's work. Now I know that I am healed indeed, because God does His work well and thoroughly. I have also been healed of many minor ailments, but to me the greatest blessing is the spiritual healing, the absolute restfulness in the everlasting arms of divine Love, the understanding of Holy Writ, and the trust we can safely place in God. If I love much it is because much is forgiven me, and I ask of Him that my utmost devotion may be "a burnt offering" upon the altar of Truth and Love. I thank divine Mind that one of His children in this age was endowed with that purity of thought, that unselfed love, which enabled her to give to her brethren this beautiful truth, taught in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." and I breathe a fervent, God bless our beloved Leader.—Elizabeth E. Souza, New York, N. Y.

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