Testimony of Healing November 23, 1907 Issue

From the depths of my heart am I grateful for the sweetness...

Laura M. Miller

From the depths of my heart am I grateful for the sweetness which has come into my life during the past two years through Christian Science. I am grateful to God for the truth—for knowing that Truth is perfect, exact. I am grateful to Him for the spiritual revelation to this age. From early childhood I was filled with apprehension and fear lest some terrible evil befall me. I began to pray that if it were possible God would let me live to see the second coming of Christ—and now I know my prayer was even then being answered by the coming to human consciousness of the Christ healing through Christian Science. I am grateful beyond expression to our noble, brave, kind Leader, Mrs. Eddy, the one who received this spiritual revelation and was obedient unto "the heavenly vision."

From spiritual darkness, from physical and mental wreckage (nervous trouble in a violent form, and many attendant ills), I have been raised to light and life. Christian Science has given me health, strength, happiness, and an abiding joy which cannot be taken from me. When a child, after spending a whole summer in darkness because of eye trouble, from which one of Omaha's best oculists had said I would never wholly recover, I was healed in ten days through Christian Science. Years passed, during which illness, death, and financial difficulty visited us as a family, and this quick healing was seemingly forgotten. It was not until I myself was grown, had suffered for years, reaching utter despair, having tried nearly all known remedies unsuccessfully, and like the Israelites of old would say in the morning, "Would God it were even!" and at even. "Would God it were morning!" for the fear of the heart which I feared, and for the sight of the eyes, that I turned to Truth.

I had one year of magnetic treatment, two months of "mental training," five months of osteopathy, two months of physical exercise under a special trainer, four months of rest cure, a year with an attendant physician, by whose advice I was taking medicine every fifteen minutes of the day, taking special baths night and morning, being massaged, and having at night applications of ice at the head and hot water at the feet to induce sleep, and finally taking from one to three doses of a sleeping potion with little or no effect; but all these failed to accomplish what Christian Science did in two weeks. One treatment healed me of bowel trouble of ten years' standing and also enabled me to sleep when feared I was going insane. I can never forget the sweet peace and glorious rest of those first three nights of blissful sleep and the sweet awakening in the morning. Another long-standing trouble, for which two physicians advised an operation, yielded at this time; in fact. I was wholly healed in two weeks of all my physical ailments. Then began the spiritual healing. My long illness had caused heavy debts, but these yielded to Truth, and what had hung over us for years had vanished as a vapor in five months. Prejudice is gradually melting away, and as a family we are finding that we are of one mind, even the Mind of Christ. The gradual unfolding of the truth in my own consciousness was beautiful.

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