Testimony of Healing November 14, 1908 Issue

Three years ago I wrote my first testimony, in which...

Eloise B. Robbins

Three years ago I wrote my first testimony, in which I described my healing in Science two years previously. Prior to this healing I had been in a wretched condition, mentally and physically, and had vainly resorted to three different physicians. Since then I have been able through the understanding of Truth which I have acquired in the study of the Bible and Science and Health and the Christian Science Quarterly, Sentinel, and Journal, to overcome every ailment that has arisen. Physical illnesses have been few, I am thankful to say, since I have come into Science, but those which have appeared—colds, headaches, etc,—have been quickly overcome. A nervous habit, which had been a lifelong companion and which I had vainly striven to overcome by "will-power" in the old thought, has disappeared without any effort on my part; mental depression, to which I had been subject at intervals for many years, troubles me no more, and I have realized many ambitions which formerly I had little hope of ever attaining. When I have obeyed the admonition, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness," I have found the accompanying promise, "and all these things shall be added unto you," not an empty one. The only physical ill of a serious nature was a growth in the side. This caused considerable pain, and for some time I felt that I must put the case in the hands of some one more advanced in Science than I. Then the realization came that I was allowing fear to creep in, and when I had cast this fear out and declared that it could vanish into its "native nothingness" now, it entirely disappeared in two days time, nor have I had the slightest return of it.

But beyond all the physical healing is the desire which Christian Science daily engenders, to live nearer to God, to follow as nearly as possible the command, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," knowing that Christ Jesus never gave us a command impossible of fulfilment, however long and hard the path before us. I am indeed thankful to God, who has led me through doubt and darkness to see the impossibility of attaining true peace or happiness in a material sense of existence; and thankful to that noble woman. Mrs. Eddy, who was pure enough to see the truth that shall set us free, and brave enough to stand for that truth in the face of persecution and misrepresentation. I am glad that I have been the means of helping others to some extent, and hope that by living the truth and reflecting divine Love I may be enabled to bring to many others the realization of what an understanding of Christian Science does for humanity.

Eloise B. Robbins, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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