Testimony of Healing June 20, 1908 Issue

Words can never express what Christian Science has...

Adelaide Jennings

Words can never express what Christian Science has done for me, as I had suffered from the time I was a very young girl with female trouble. Much money had been spent in employing some of the best physicians in the United States, osteopathy had been resorted to, but none of these gave me more than temporary relief. At last, after twelve years, the trouble became so bad that I was confined to my bed and could hardly take a step without bringing on an attack of excruciating pain. An authority from the East, who was out in this part of the country at the time, was called in consultation with the regular attending physician, and it was decided that my only chance for health was to have a most serious operation. They said that if the operation was not performed soon there was great danger. At this critical moment Christian Science help was called for, just as a last resort and without any knowledge whatever of its teaching. That very day, after the practitioner had left me, I got up and walked down staits. I felt weak, as I had taken hardly a step in over two months, but no pain resulted from the walking and in three weeks I was entirely healed.

But oh, how much more had I been freed from than physical suffering! For years I had hungered and thirsted after righteousness; I had prayed to be made unselfish and good, but at no time could I approach anywhere near what I wanted to be. I was fond of the world and of having "a good time;" I was very selfish, irritable, critical, etc., and I realize now what bondage I have been freed from. While I am a very long way from manifesting the real man (God's man), yet even now, after a little over a year spent in the study of Christian Science, the "old man" has, to some extent, been destroyed and I am experiencing the "new birth." Now I go to the Bible for help and receive it; Science and Health has indeed been a "Key to the Scriptures" for me, and great light has been poured upon them, from Genesis to Revelation. If I could make every one understand what Christian Science has done for me, I am sure there would be none but Christian Scientists in the whole world. There is a vast difference between merely believing in infinite Love and in understanding and proving it daily. Things spiritual are being unfolded, and the truth is making me free. Now I can understand why Paul says, "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice."

To God my heart wells up in unutterable gratitude for "the Word" made flesh in Jesus Christ, "the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." I am also grateful to God for sending the Word to this age by one who was found pure enough to bear it,—our Leader,—who through great trials has ever stood firm, bearing aloft the white banner of Christian Science. My love for her who has taught me that "God is everywhere, and nothing apart from Him is present or has power" (Science and Health, p. 473), cannot be expressed except by trying faithfully to follow the path which she has trod and is treading now. I can say joyfully and gratefully, "Praise God from whom all blessings flow."—

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