Testimony of Healing January 6, 1906 Issue

About eight years ago a copy of Science and Health was...

Anabel Benson

About eight years ago a copy of Science and Health was sent me by a friend whose child had been wonderfully healed of tuberculosis of the throat, after being condemned to die by some of the best physicians in America and Europe. I read the book, and it seemed to be the most reasonable and desirable religion ever presented to me, but being in fair health, and leading a very busy life, I neglected my opportunities, although believing it to be right and declaring my convictions at all times. After some two years of ups and downs I was suddenly attacked by hemorrhage from what the doctors called fibroid tumor. My sufferings were intense, and for six weeks I lay upon the bed, unable to rise without serious results. After talking with two or three other doctors, it was decided that hospital was the only hope, unless I was willing to wait to have the tumor abscrbed by treatment, which would take probably a year, they said.

I wrote my friend of the doctors' verdict, and in reply came a letter which said in part, "Give up your doctors, read Science and Health, and when you can get on your feet, come home." As I had been trying six weeks to get on my feet, it seemed my only chance, and was worth trying, although I had no particular understanding and there were no Scientists in our town. I did as told, with all willingness to be healed, and in two weeks the work was done, in so far that I could go to Kansas City without help. I went at once to a practitioner, and in one week the healing was complete. The second Sunday there, I was on the East side, expecting to attend Second Church, but finding no services, continued the walk with friends to our home, a distance of twenty-one blocks, without resting on the way. There was not the least sense of fatigue and no bad results from it, which to my sense proved the healing complete. My husband had been extremely antagonistic to Christian Science, but did not dare refuse to let me try it under the circumstances. He wrote me while there, that for my sake he would read Science and Health. He read, and found his help, for while doing so he was healed of piles, and chronic indigestion in a severe form, with its attendant troubles.

While the physical healing has been wonderful, it seems but a small part, for the growth along the lines of disposition and my attitude toward the world has been such that my whole life has been changed. The spiritual growth brings a peace and rest which cannot be expressed in words, but those who have experienced it can, partially at least, realize the great unselfishness and goodness of Mrs. Eddy in bringing it to the world.

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