Testimony of Healing September 8, 1906 Issue

I was completely healed through Christian Science of a...

Nancy Stillson

I was completely healed through Christian Science of a physical difficulty pronounced hereditary and incurable by physicians. With my healing came a new and more intense interest in the study of the Bible than I had ever before experienced, and by which I found the true and living God who is an ever-present help. For many months of joyous living I was upon what seemed to my newly-awakened thought the sunlit peaks of infinite Love; I had the unspeakable privilege of class instruction by our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and this was followed by some remarkable cases of healing and an unusual sense of dominion over what had previously seemed very annoying conditons. Then, through failure to listen to the Father's guiding call and to silence the subtle suggestions of the tempter, there followed years of wandering in the wilderness, asleep to the call of Truth. I was at length awakened by a sorrow, the depth of which I cannot express, to find my way back through toil and tears to more faithful work in the Master's vineyard. I am now finding my sweetest comfort in studying to show myself "approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed."

Oft, as I toiled up the rugged steeps, these words from Isaiah came to my thought, "O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." In "Miscellaneous Writings" by Mrs. Eddy, we find this faithful warning, "One backward step, one relinquishment of right in an evil hour, one faithless tarrying, has torn the laurel from many a brow, and repose from many a heart" (p. 339). I have learned that it is only when we forget that our helper is omnipotent and ever-present that we doubt, fear, or seem to go backward; and we need often to withdraw from the multitude, and, like the lowly Jesus, to go "up into a mountain apart to pray." Thus may we abide in the assurance that nothing can deprive us of the divine protection, and this promise from God will be ours: "I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness."

Nancy Stillson, Farmington, Maine.

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