Testimony of Healing October 9, 1909 Issue

I should like to tell others of the quickening that has...

Rebecca Street

I should like to tell others of the quickening that has come to me through. Christian Science and Bible study. Twenty-two years ago I had an attack of what is known as hay-fever, and my mother consulted her physician about it. He said that I should be sent to northern Michigan, that this was the best thing he could recommend. I went to Michigan many times for relief, but in the fall of 1908, not realizing as much benefit as I had seemed to receive at other times. I came home nearly a month earlier than usual. I was so poorly the first evening after I arrived that something had to be done for me. My hostess advised Christian Science treatment, and I told her I was willing and that she might call a practitioner; which she did. After the treatment I went to sleep, and rested the best I had for a long time ; and treatment the second evening was followed by the same result. Since that time I have taken several treatments.

I had been told over and over again that hay-fever was incurable, and I had accepted the thought, and said that I did not believe there was any permanent cure by taking medicine. I had, however, always believed, and held to the thought, that God was able and could heal; the difficulty was to bring my faith to the point of belief in His willingness to do it. After I began to read in Science and Health I took up the Bible and looked for some passage to strengthen my faith in God's willingness to heal me, and I found these promises: "I will heal thee;" "I will restore health unto thee." The question then came to my mind. Who is this "I"? Many times in the twenty-two years of my affliction I have gone to physicians and asked them if they could do anything for me, and sometimes they would say that they could cure me, and would give me some medicine; but often there was not even a palliative effect. To drug medication I may say, "Thou hast no healing medicines."

But I had begun to ask, Who is this "I," that the Bible speaks of, with the promise, "I will heal thee;" and "I will restore health unto thee"? As I thought long and deeply of the matter 1 realized that in God's presence there is no sickness, no sorrow, nothing to grieve over, no hatred, no jealously, for God is Love, and God is All-in-all. Then early in the morning came the answer in a "still small voice," to my question: This "I" is He who was, and is, and ever will be. Again, one evening, I became agitated and restless, and feared that I could not sleep; then I turned my thought to the "I" the one Mind, with the result that I went to sleep, and slept soundly. In the morning there came to me these words: "God hath not given us the spirit of fear," but "the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." and I realized that rest which remaineth for the children of God, and which the practitioner had said was man's divine right. The healing stream of divine Love flowed on perceptibly through consciousness, and I remembered these words of Jesus: "I am the way, the truth, and the life:" and "I am the door : by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out. and find pasture."

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