Testimony of Healing April 11, 1908 Issue

I can express in only a small degree the thankfulness I...

David W. Moran

I can express in only a small degree the thankfulness I feel for the good I have received in Christian Science. It is now nearly eight years since I first heard of Christian Science. We were at that time held down, as it seemed, by poverty, and I was gradually going to the grave with throat and lung trouble, and other diseases that go with it, — ailments too numerous to mention. My husband got the name of a Christian Science practitioner who lived in our State, and I took treatment for a while. I did get somewhat better, but knew nothing of the teaching and had no one to instruct me in any way. I had no Christian Science literature to read except two copies of the Journal. Finally, however, we managed to get a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy: but I could not then understand it, so I laid it aside and decided that rather than be ridiculed by neighbors and friends I would see if there was not some other way to get well.

I had always a great sense of trust in God, and when but a child I had always looked to God for help in time of

trouble ; but I had been taught to think of God as personal — sending punishment in the form of sickness for our correction. After I laid aside my hope in Science, I went down fast, though for five years we tried every remedy we could find or hear of. I tried several doctors in Tampa, Fla., also a lung and throat specialist in the North, spending all above a scant living, only to find that I was fast fading away. By this time the disease seemed to hold me fast, and no one knows how bitter it is to suffer so, save those who have experienced it. To look at your loved ones and think that you will not be with them long! My neighbors have since said they gave me six months at most to live. I was so greatly reduced in flesh that I avoided looking in the mirror. But I had one more hope! I said, like the prodigal son, I will return to the Father (through Christian Science), as it is the only hope. I did so, and though the healing was slow, it was sure. I soon began to mend in mind and body, so that every one could see the change. Science and Health was taken down from the shelf and made a welcome guest. I said, "I will read it, and what I cannot understand I will pass over, for if one part is true it must all be true."

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