Testimony of Healing February 29, 1908 Issue

For some time I have been reading the Sentinel, enjoying...

Louise B. Simon

For some time I have been reading the Sentinel, enjoying the many testimonies of healing, but never until now have I felt it was my duty as well as privilege to give to others some of the good I have received through its pages. These words of our Leader, "Take our magazine, work for it, write for it, and read it" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 271), brought me to this realization. One thought has always been with me, to give as I received, and with that spirit of humility and love I want to give my testimony, hoping it may reach and help those in darkness and trouble as I was, and lift them into the understanding of the truth as given by our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, in her book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." My heart is full of thanks to her, and every day I seem to realize more and more what her sacrifice has been to give us this truth. It has been proven to me many times that we grow in knowledge and grace only as we try to show others the way, and spiritual progress is gained only by taking up the cross of antagonism and hatred to the truth, and giving of the truth freely to all who ask for it. Not one good thought given out with a spirit of humility and love shall return to us void. How great may the harvest be when we can scatter broadcast over the land this healing, uplifting truth!

For fifteen years every ill known to mortal mind seemed to claim me as its victim. My children were also heirs to this condition, having all the diseases familiar to childhood, which were looked forward to as something necessary to have before growing to manhood. The youngest, a boy of nine years, lay in bed for weeks with a fever, and the oldest boy, eleven years of age, was at the same time under a specialist's care for what the doctors called a dreaded hip disease. I was part of the time under the nurse's care, with spells of severe pain said to be caused by gall stones, which finally ended in two operations being performed. These left me very weak and a sufferer with rheumatic trouble, for which I tried nearly every known remedy without any good effect. My oldest boy seemed to improve under an osteopath's treatments, but was very lame ; the younger, after recovering from the fever, was considered very delicate, and both of them, as well as myself, were subject to severe attacks of throat trouble. It was no unusual thing for me to have severe headaches for two and three days at a time, accompanied with extreme nervousness.

About this time an intimate friend was healed through Christian Science treatment, and while visiting her I first saw the Christian Science text-book, Science and Health, and started to read it. I could not let it alone, and what attracted me most was the wonderful light it threw on the Scriptures, interpreting and explaining them in a way that appealed to reason. I came home determined to find this truth for myself, and sought it with all my might and strength, letting nothing stand in the way of my advancement. I had always lived for pleasure and society, and to turn at once to the truth, forsaking all of what then seemed to me the pleasures and realities of life, was a struggle, but only for a time, for after determining fully that I would know the truth, it set me free. I found I no longer cared for the old things, but began to realize that God is our Life. I, and my children as well, have been healed of every ailment. Without my noticing it many troubles left me during the reading of Science and Health, and I have never had a return of the rheumatic trouble or nervousness. Only once did the old throat trouble return to my boys and myself, to be vanquished utterly in two days, where two weeks had been the time we suffered with it before. Not a drop of medicine has passed our lips for nearly three years. Every claim of error or sickness has been met with the healing rebuke of Truth, denying the reality of evil's power and claiming God's allness.

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