Testimony of Healing December 19, 1908 Issue

I feel that I can no longer be silent, but must tell others...

Mary K. Foster

I feel that I can no longer be silent, but must tell others who are seeking for help what Christian Science has done for me. It has been as a great light dispelling the darkness of mortal fear and sorrow. The fear of lung trouble had been over me all my life, and the disease seemingly developed four years ago. The best of medical skill and change of climate gave little benefit, and two years ago, in my discouragement, I turned to Christian Science. I well remember the words which the dear practitioner quoted to me when first I talked with her, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee." I had been a professing Christian since childhood, but with ill health and mental troubles I had not found abiding peace. Now I know that it was because my mind was not "stayed" on God. With the Bible and Science and Health as daily companions, and occasionally a few days' help from the practitioner, I have been able to work continuously, and through circumstances under which I should have succumbed in the old thought. I feel today that I am well. Physical and mental troubles have disappeared before the truth which Jesus said should make us free. Seemingly great trials have come to me, but I am proving day by day "the supremacy and reality of good, the nothingness and unreality of evil" (Science and Health, p. 205).

For many years my son, a lad of thirteen, had been confined to the house for weeks at a time during the winter with glandular trouble. The past year we have been living many miles from any Christian Science influence, and when a few months ago the familiar symptoms appeared, fear seemed to hold us in the old bondage, but after a few hours' quiet realization of the ever-presence of divine Love, the fever left him, and by the next morning he was free from all symptoms of the trouble. Is it strange that we who have been lifted out of bondage love dear Mrs. Eddy, and honor her brave, unselfish life? I cannot in words express my gratitude for Christian Science. Best of all is the spiritual help it has given,—the better understanding of the Bible,—the proof that its precious promises are really meant to be realized to-day. I pray to be obedient to Truth, for I know that, as Paul says, "if these things be in us, and abound, they make us that we shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ," I can best show my gratitude for this truth by helping some one burdened as I was, and this is what I am striving to do.—Mary K. Foster, Chase, Col.

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