Testimony of Healing May 23, 1908 Issue

Every testimony in the Sentinel is helpful to me, and for...

F. H. Camp

Every testimony in the Sentinel is helpful to me, and for this help I feel deeply grateful. Perhaps one way of expressing that gratitude is to offer my own testimony to the wonders of Truth. From my mother I learned that hypocrisy or an impure life or thought is never acceptable to God. She told us that mere profession could never present us "spotless" in the sight of God, if unaccompanied by a life of fidelity to right and a broad love for humanity. These truer and higher conceptions of God have always been responded to in my consciousness, and it seemed impossible to think of God as revengeful, or as visiting affliction on any of His children, so there was rebellion in my heart against many orthodox views and social customs. It is scarcely necessary to say that poor health was my portion. With doctors and druggists in my own family, I sought, like Asa, "not to the Lord, but to the physicians;" and after some ten years of almost constant ill health, lung trouble was said—by four physicians—to be doing its "deadly work" rapidly, and I was given but a few weeks to live. In spite of the fact that I was the mother of small children, I felt relieved that I was soon to be rid of what seemed a painful and useless body.

And so I did get rid of it, but through the understanding of God (Christ's way) and not through death (error's way). I shall never forget the joy with which my eyes rested on a few lines penned in defense and explanation of Christian Science and published in a paper in our State. The writer told of both physical healing and spiritual uplifting. Something told me that this was what Jesus wanted all to know. The "cup of cold water" had been offered, and I drank of it eagerly and gratefully. I never asked for help—the beautiful, sweet, reasonable interpretation of Love was the healer, and the lung trouble vanished as a nightmare when the sleeper is awakened.

I am thankful to be learning how to meet all seeming evil, and deeply grateful for this healing truth which shows me how my only enemy is self, how the entertaining of thoughts unlike God is the only cause of discord. Since my healing, about ten years ago, my love for Mrs. Eddy has steadily increased, as I realize more clearly her wonderful faithfulness and unselfishness in interpreting to mortals the truth that sets free from the thraldom of superstition and ignorance,—so-called material laws.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Testimony of Healing

The healing that has come to me in Christian Science...