Testimony of Healing August 8, 1908 Issue

It is nearly two years since it was proved to me in...

J. A. Gray

It is nearly two years since it was proved to me in Christian Science that "there is no power apart from God" (Science and Health, p. 228), and I feel that no one has any more to be thankful for than have I. I was healed of severe pain in the head, which had been growing worse day by day for more than a year. Materia medica would relieve the pain for a short time, but as each day it returned and was rapidly growing worse, I began to fear that I would lose my reason. My family was very much worried about me. One evening my daughter came from the home of a Christian Scientist and told me that a friend had said I could be cured if I would read Science and Health. I had very little faith in this, but like many others I was willing to try anything. I commenced reading that evening. The next day and each succeeding day the pain grew less, until in a very few days it was gone entirely, never to return. Then I said, "If Christian Science can cure one disease, it can cure all."

When a small child I fell and dislocated one of my hips, which was never replaced. I could not bring my feet together without turning my whole body. For twenty-five years I had suffered with rheumatic trouble in the other hip, and it gradually grew worse, so that I was never free from pain, night or day. In time this joint too became stiff, and at last I was compelled to use a cane, which I continued to do for eight years, and I also suffered excruciating pain if I was on my feet for any length of time. I had the best of physicians, and tried all kinds of remedies,—electricity, osteopathy, etc.,—until I finally gave up all hope of ever being any better, and when asked about the rheumatic trouble, my answer was invariably, "Getting worse; it has come to stay." After my head was cured I continued to read Science and Health, and also to attend church. One Wednesday evening I said, "I am going to leave my cane at home and lean on God to-night;" and I have never used the cane since (that was in April, 1906). I never have any more pain, can walk for hours without any bad effects, never get tired. The dislocated joint is free. I can move it without any trouble, and although one limb is still shorter than the other, I know that I shall be entirely healed and walk as straight as any one. I am learning what it means to "work out your own salvation." and with God's help I cannot fail.

Not long ago, when alone one night in my room at a hotel, without a friend near me, I was healed of a very severe attack of illness which lasted an hour and a half, just by holding fast to the truth and trusting to God to set me free. The next morning, although a little weak, I was well and able to go to my daughter, several blocks away, without any assistance. I have had many more demonstrations, for which I thank God; and I am also grateful to our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for showing us how we may rely on divine Love in all our needs.

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