Testimony of Healing January 25, 1908 Issue

About eight years ago, when the clouds of mortal sense...

Augusta W. Cole

About eight years ago, when the clouds of mortal sense seemed darkest, I took my first treatment in Christian Science. At that time I was spending a few weeks at a summer resort and I was supposed to be enjoying all the pleasures which such an outing offered, but in none of these was there a sense of happiness or peace. While there I was taken with a sense of happiness or peace. While there I was taken with a very severe attack of an illness to which I had been subject. I had suffered, when an infant, with a fever in its severest form, and these attacks which had occurred with more or less frequency all my life were supposedly the result of that illness. Usually the attack lasted only a few minutes, but at the time of which I am writing, for almost two days nothing could be swallowed. With this acute condition there was extreme nervousness and general weakness. Two physicians upon whom I called for help were powerless to give me any relief until the attack passed away, and then each one said he could only give me medicine or a course of treatment which would put the body in condition to resist future attack. This was so discouraging that I determined to turn to Christian Science, and I took my first treatment the following day. In three days I was in perfect health. Since then I have not used drugs in any form nor have I had faith in material remedies of any character. Another demonstration which I should like to speak of was over an attack of lung trouble. A complete physical collapse seemed to come on suddenly late one Monday afternoon, but it was not until the next morning that help was asked. This time the treatments were absent, as the practitioner was in Oakland and I was in San Francisco. On the following Monday I was able to call on the practitioner, and the next day physical conditions had become normal; it was as if there had been no illness at all.

Aside from these demonstrations over acute illness there is the far-reaching and never-ending effect of the action of truth. The constant reading of Science and Health, together with the daily study of the Lesson-Sermons, has shown me the power of Christian Science. A few years after coming into the knowledge of this great truth I visited an aunt with whom I had once spent several months before I had ever heard of the Science. While there, old conditions which had long been forgotten were recalled, and then I realized how great a change there was in my physical and mental state, and consequently in all surrounding circumstances. The fear and inharmony had given place to a firm understanding and to fearlessness of action.

I cannot close without expressing deepest gratitude to our Leader that she has been able and willing to voice the truth to us in this day; and that so many of us have been helped out of the darkness of despair and the density of mortal fear, and led into the right path.

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