Testimony of Healing August 12, 1905 Issue

Shortly after rising one morning, I was attacked by a...

Adela S. Hawley

Shortly after rising one morning, I was attacked by a sharp pain which seemed to encircle my waist; it was so severe for a time that, when stooping or sitting, I could scarcely raise myself up. I was striving continually to affirm the facts of being, mentally, while performing my morning duties about the house, and did not, by word or action, show to those around me the struggle I was going through, but I was unable to sit down for any quiet work until about ten o'clock that morning. I then took up my study of the Lesson-Sermon for that week (it was the lesson on "Spirit") and it contained this reference, "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?" I knew at once that I had found my help, for as I read the words I had a clearer sense than ever before that the real man is spiritual,—not for a moment subject to matter nor to any of the limitations of so-called material law.

Gaining immediate relief from this realization, I continued joyously along this line of thought. The task was a delightful one and brought to me many helpful lessons, for the ray of light I had received brought out, in the words I read in the Bible, things I had never before seen, although I had of course read them many times. This demonstration over a sense of suffering was very helpful and beautiful to me.

MRS. Adela S. Hawley, Seattle, Wash.

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