Testimony of Healing July 6, 1907 Issue

The prophet Esaias says, "The people which sat in...

Pearl Reames

The prophet Esaias says, "The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up." Christian Science overtook me dwelling in the "shadow of death." When an eminent physician kindly told me of his helplessness in my case, that my only alternative was to endure patiently until death came to my relief, I was not greatly disturbed, for, in the words of Paul, I had a "desire to depart, and to be with Christ." Then, too, I recalled the words of the psalmist: "Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart." I was in this attitude of watching and waiting when lo, swift on its wings of healing, came Divine Science, shedding its halo of light, sounding the bugle-call of Truth: "Awake thou that sleepest, ... and Christ shall give thee light," and I suddenly awoke to the consciousness that I did not have to "die to live" nor "depart" to be with Christ. Under the searchlight of this Science our Master's words stood out in letters of gold: "I am the resurrection and the life: .... and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." In the words of the Revelator, "I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey." I found "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" complete per se, and it is and will ever be to me a "lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." Paul asks, "What communion hath light with darkness?" Mrs. Eddy tells us that "light and darkness cannot dwell together. Light extinguishes the darkness" (Science and Health, p. 474); while John declares that "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."

Before this spiritual light penetrated my mental darkness I cried unto the Lord for help. In this attitude of earnest longing what joy was mine when Divine Science revealed to me the one living and true God and His relation to man and the universe. Awakened in Divine Science one stands appalled at the "ghastly farce of material existence" (Science and Health, p. 272), When thoroughly aroused, one is impelled to arise and hasten to put on the "whole armor of God."

When it comes to honoring the Discoverer of this wonderful Science, what shall I say? Suffice it that I say of her, in the words of the apostle, "Whom having not seen" (in the flesh), I love; and "rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory."—Pearl Reames, Little Rock, Ark.

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