Testimony of Healing August 1, 1908 Issue

I wish to express at least a part of the gratitude I feel...

Luella Kimball

I wish to express at least a part of the gratitude I feel for what the new and larger understanding of Christ, Truth, has done for me through Christian Science. Ever since I was a child, when I accidentally learned that my dear mother had died in an asylum for the insane, I had been haunted with the fear of hereditary insanity, and only those who have had a similar experience can have any idea of how I suffered. Many times I wished that I might die, so that I might be spared a fate which to me seemed so much worse than death. I had heard of Christian Science, but would not investigate it for myself, and was much opposed to it, or what I thought it to be. After I had spent many years in seeking relief and had failed to find it, a little more than four years ago, when I felt there was almost no hope or help anywhere for me, a dear friend persuaded me to go and have a talk with a practitioner.

I shall never forget how at the first treatment that awful weight of fear was lifted from me never to return; and how the distressed feeling in my head was immediately relieved. I felt like an entirely different being when I walked out of her house that afternoon. That night, for the first time in a good many weeks, I went to sleep, had not a trace of fear, and slept as soundly and peacefully as a child. To me it was wonderful, and the most beautiful experience I had ever known. I learned as I came to understand a little of what Christian Science really is, that it is what I had always longed for. It satisfies the hungry soul as nothing else can, and I am most grateful for the many blessings that have come to me through the understanding of this truth. Words are inadequate to express what I feel! I am also more grateful than I can tell that one was found pure and good enough who could bring this message of Love to the world to-day. Mrs. Eddy has proved that she is worthy of the trust and of all the love and gratitude we give her. The only proper way we can express our debt to her is by trying to follow her example in our daily living.

I am sure that without the help I received in Christian Science I should have become much worse in a very short time. Ought I not, then, to feel thankful for the understanding that God, good, does not make a law of disease for any of His children? I am so glad to know this is not true. I shall be very glad and thankful if this testimony prove the means of helping another poor sufferer to find the way to health, happiness, and "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding."

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