Testimony of Healing November 28, 1908 Issue

With the hope that some other may thereby be led to...

Belle M. Vaill

With the hope that some other may thereby be led to seek this glorious truth, and receive like blessings, I wish to tell what Christian Science has done for me. All my life I had suffered from very severe colds in my head and throat, also from bowel trouble. I ha bronchial trouble almost every month, and had been told by two physicians that I would better not remain in this climate another winter. In the spring of 1905 we changed our place of residence to a different part of this city, and we soon discovered that several of our new friends were Christian Scientists. In the following fall I turned to Christian Science for relief from my suffering, because I could not help but see what it had done and was doing for those about me. When I asked for my first treatment I had been sick in bed for three days with a severe attack of throat and stomach trouble. I received wonderful relief the first day, and by the end of the second day all pain and discomfort were gone. Inside of a week I felt well, and during the two and a half years which have passed since, not one of these ailments has returned.

Immediately after this healing I began to study the Bible and our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and some time during the first six months I left off my glasses, which I had worn for all work for eight years. I made no effort to do this, and was unconscious of it until a friend called my attention to the fact. Very severe headaches have gradually yielded, and I am healed of all desire for the drug with which I used to deaden pain and induce sleep.

I am indeed more grateful than I can tell for Christian Science. It has healed me of sickness and sin, and now it is teaching me to understand God aright. I am sincerely thankful to be freed from constant ills, and to be brought into perfect health, but I am much more thankful for the great sweetness which has come into my life, with a truer sense of Life and Love. Christian Science is teaching me to put aside prejudice, suspicion, criticism, anxiety, and selfishness. It is making me more loving, more thoughtful of others. Love is teaching me to put a kind thought in the place of an unkind one, to love my neighbor as myself, to know that God alone guides and governs all, that He is all there is or can be, and that He supplies our every need. My heart goes out in humble gratitude for having been so kindly led into this truth. I want to live my gratitude to God, and to our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy.—Belle M. Vaill, Evanston, Ill.

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