Testimony of Healing July 6, 1907 Issue

Twelve years ago, I found myself a physical and mental...

Caroline Washburn Rockwood

Twelve years ago. I found myself a physical and mental wreck, after over forty years of devotion to what are considered by the majority of Christians the highest forms of spiritual, intellectual, and physical teaching. I had been a singer and teacher of singing, as well as a lover of books and a writer, but I found myself suddenly stripped of energy, strength, eyesight, voice, and well-night of hope. Born within touch of the Christian Science movement, my thought was so fixed upon inherited and educated creedal beliefs that even the name had escaped my notice, and of its teaching I was wholly ignorant. In the time of my greatest need, however, I was sent to a practitioner without knowing what she practised, but I thank God that from that first glimpse of the truth I have never for one instant doubted its divinity. My faithful helper aided me in realizing sight and strength, voice and supply,—in short, general harmony,—and I arose "in the strength of Spirit" (Science and Health, p. 393), eager to spread abroad the "good news," and joyful beyond expression, exulting in the unending vista of spiritual power. All Christian Scientists understand the marvelous results we attain while on the mountain-top of newly awakened acceptance of Principle. Error faded into its native nothingness before my unquestioning drafts upon Love, Life, and Truth. Many battles have since been fought in the necessary proving of my faith; there were temptations from every side; but there was also unspeakable happiness and peace and courage as a present reward of faithfulness. Although I have passed that period to which material sense limits the expression of my professional work as a public singer, with fast graying hair and the record of many years in the service, I still have the joy of being and proving myself fresher, stronger, and a thousand times more acceptable, even from the singer's standpoint, than twenty years ago; and from the spiritual standpoint, what was a fast-fading pathway, along which I passed with faltering, anxious step, has become, through Christian Science, a surer, brighter, and sweeter way.

I thank God for the incomparable gift of Christian Science, and the inestimable blessings which have come through our beloved Leader's untiring efforts to this generation and to all succeeding generations. I thank Him, too, for the high spiritual understanding and wisdom which so carefully collects and sifts for the Field the helpful testimonies of those faced Zionward. May each and every worker attain so impersonal and loving a sense of the work given them to do, that all may share in its blessings.

Caroline Washburn Rockwood, Staunton, Va.

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