Testimony of Healing April 20, 1907 Issue

It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I acknowledge...

Bessie M. DeMotts

It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I acknowledge the many benefits received in Christian Science. It is over three years since I began the study of our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and the many ways in which I have been helped are to me proof positive that it is the truth of which Jesus spoke when he said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." I was taken with severe lung trouble, and after the first attack, I consulted a physician who was considered the best in our town. He gave me what he called a thorough examination and said that the conditions were very serious and that if I did not resign my school position and go to a warmer climate, at the end of another year I would be where nothing could help me. I, however, kept on with my school duties, having two more alarming attacks after this and growing weaker each day, until at the time school closed in June I was a complete wreck, physically and mentally.

Two weeks after the close of school I departed for Los Angeles in search of health. It was while at Phoenix, Ariz., where I stopped a while on my way to Los Angeles, that Christian Science was first brought to my notice. At first I looked upon it as rather a foolish idea, but at last decided to give it a trial. However I went on to Los Angeles first. I was in Los Angeles just one month when a great sorrow came to me. It seemed that I had prayed so earnestly, and then to have to endure this sorrow was more than I could bear and still believe that there was a just God. If only I had known how to pray aright. After returning to my home I found that I had contracted a cold on the train, and a deep sense of fear came up, for the symptoms were alarming. I dared not go to my doctor, for I knew what he would say. I seemed to be a complete nervous wreck, but in the face of all this my school was to begin in three weeks.

It must have been the "still, small voice" of Truth speaking to me, for one day as I lay on my bed, thinking over all the past, the thought came to me, "Can it be that I have not understood God aright, and this is why He has not answered my prayers?" I thought of the many dear people we had met at the testimony meeting in Los Angeles, and of their wonderful testimonies of healing. I said to myself, "If God healed them He will heal me;" and I then decided to read Science and Health and see if I could find what was in it that could heal, for all those whose testimonies I had heard referred to Science and Health as having been the source of their redemption. I commenced reading, and suffice it to say that it did not take long to discover what was in the "book" to cause them to adhere so closely to it. I was gradually becoming "in Christ ... a new creature." When the time came for school to open I assumed my duties the same as ever. It was not long, however, until error seemed stronger than Truth to me, and I secured the help of a practitioner. After having taken a week's treatment I felt again that Truth was the conqueror; not that I was completely healed then, but with patient study and a constant striving to realize God's allness I am now able to say positively that I am healed, not a trace of the troubles which I have mentioned being manifest in any form.

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