Testimony of Healing February 9, 1907 Issue

Those of us who have been released from the prisonhouse...

KATE KIMBALL FLORA

Those of us who have been released from the prisonhouse of suffering should consider it not only a duty, but an inestimable privilege to tell others of our deliverance. My heart is filled with thankfulness, too deep for words to express, for the benefits which have come into my experience through the study and application of Christian Science. From childhood I had never been considered strong, and finally invalidism claimed me for many years. I was under the care of physicians nearly all the time and almost lived on medicine. I was a patient in a sanitarium for months, where the examining physician said my trouble was a complication of diseases, and that I would never be well again. Lake trips, mineral baths, etc., also a trip to the Pacific coast, gave but little relief. Two physicians told me that an operation was necessary, but that I could not take chloroform because of a serious heart trouble. I suffered torment under the medical treatment, but the knife was not used. Financial reverses had made it necessary that I should seek employment, and when I told the doctor so, he said I would never do a day's work again. For a time, however, I was able to do a little work, but used medicine in some form constantly.

About six years ago one of the troubles became greatly aggravated, and then it was that I turned to Christian Science, as it seemed the only hope left me. I had heard of Science, but did not think it could help one who had a serious sickness. I did not mention my many ailments to the practitioner when I asked for help, thinking only to be relieved of the one which had been a source of pain so long. I was helped immediately, and was soon better than I had been for years. I accepted a position as nurse to a woman suffering with paralytic trouble, and stayed with her three months. A few months later I became a forewoman in a department store in the city where I had been ill so many years, and lost only one day from my work while employed in the store.

I speak with the greatest respect of my physicians, as each stood high in profession, but it was not easy for me to forget the thousand and one remedies I had tried to no purpose, nor was it easy to leave my church and take a stand for Christian Science. Day after day I sought to learn what had freed me, and like some others who make a study of Science and Health, the unreality of evil—sin, sickness, and death—was my stumbling-block. Erelong the clouds began to roll away; the cobwebs of materiality were removed one by one, and the consciousness of God, as I had never before known Him, dawnes upon me. By the realization of God as the Principle underlying all reality, and man as His idea (child), I have been able to give others the cup of cold water in His name. Accidents, with myself and others, have been met instantaneously. This shows how far-reaching is the power of Truth, as understood in Christian Science.

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