Testimony of Healing November 20, 1909 Issue

At this Thanksgiving time, when thought is going out...

Mary M. Bell

At this Thanksgiving time, when thought is going out in gratitude for the many blessings received, may I, too, give thanks for this great truth that has come into my life, making the desert to blossom and bring forth fruit, refreshing the parched ground, and causing the springs of life to burst forth anew.

Since early childhood there had always been hidden away in the most sacred place in thought, where none could touch it to shatter it by unbelief, a hope, yea a certainty, that some time the Christ-cure would come to me, even as it came to those who were privileged to walk with Jesus by the Sea of Galilee; that I, too, would feel Truth's healing touch, and the discord which had blighted all my life would be taken from me. I waited many years for its appearing; I knew not in what guise it would come, but I knew that when it came I should recognize it.

And at last it did come, through our inspired text-book, Science and Health, with the healing for which I had waited so long. It has filled my every need, and like all that comes from divine Love, it has given me far more than I had asked. I see now that I did not know how to ask aright. I was only seeking for physical healing; but our heavenly Father knew what I had need of, and that was the spiritual healing. This healing is coming to me daily, as I reach out for it, and as I grasp this uplifting, enfolding truth, the physical externalization follows as a natural consequence, just as the melting of the ice follows the action of the sun's rays, as the bursting of the buds follows the gentle spring rains.

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