Testimony of Healing December 14, 1907 Issue

It has been in my thought for some time to tell how much...

J. Alice Wilcox

It has been in my thought for some time to tell how much love and gratitude I feel to God. and to our dear Leader, for the very many blessings that have come into my home in the past year and a half. One year ago last January I was living a most wretched life. thinking all sorts of dreadful things about myself, and had come to the conclusion that the hospital and an operation would end it all. I had using medicine for fifteen years for stomach and bowel trouble, and although I had taken it regularly three times a day, at the end of the year 1906 I was almost desperate. I had read some of the Christian Science Sentinels, and they appealed to me as the best reading I had ever seen, but still I believed I could not get along without my doctor and medicine. In February, 1906, two copies of the Sentinel were sent me from the Reading Room, and on reading them I had such an uplifted sense come to me that I immediately knew I could be healed in Christian Science. The next day was a very happy one for me. I was longing to talk with some one about Christian Science, and as I looked out of the window I saw a lady going by who had been healed. She had a copy of our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and was going on an errand of love to another one who needed this healing truth, as she told me when I called to her, but she came in on her way back and talked to me about Christian Science. She read me the Lesson-Sermon, and I drank it all in like a farmished person, for I found it was food such as I had not had before.

I kept the text-book until the next day, and it was scarcely out of my hands during that time. When it was called for I said to my husband that I must have a copy right away, for I could never be without it. The spiritual uplifting that came to me with the change of thought is more than the physical healing. I found that even those whom I had disliked were very much changed, or seemed so to me, for I found myself loving them. I then knew that God had done for me what all the doctors and medicines could not do. I attended the Wednesday evening meeting and consulted a practitioner, and in less than one week I was healed. All the medicine in the house was thrown away, and since then all my family have been healed,—some of ailments from which they had suffered for years. I have striven to give up all for this blessed truth and to worship God as Christian Scientists do. I find that I have nothing to lose and all to gain in this true religion, which was taught by Christ Jesus when on earth, and given to us by the Revelator to this age. our beloved Leader. God does bless her! My desire is to live this religion and to reflect the love that has come into my life. I know the better I live Christian Science. and obey God's law as Mrs. Eddy teaches us, the more happy she will be, and it is the only way to show my appreciation of all the good she has done for me.

The putting down of the so-called human will is everything to me. for I thought there was no way of overcoming that error, but I thank God for the understanding which I have gained through the reading of the text-book, that there is in reality no human will, nothing but God's will, and that is perfect. Two months after my healing I was able to lay aside glasses I had worn some two years, and have never needed them since. Again I thank God for this religion that illumines the whole of the Scriptures and proves that Jesus meant what he said. when he commanded his followers to preach the gospel and heal the sick. It is a great privilege to have my little daughter learn the truth as taught in the Christian Science Sunday School. I am very grateful to the dear workers of our Publishing Society and to all who are connected with this work in the Field. My prayer is that God may bless all of them, and if a thought of love will help on this great work, I gladly send it. My heart is overflowing with gratitude to God for all the staunch loyal workers in truth.

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