Testimony of Healing September 4, 1909 Issue

I should have to write volumes if I were to tell all that...

Edith Bowe

I should have to write volumes if I were to tell all that Christian Science has done for me. When I was first induced to look into this Science, I was a nervous, suffering piece of humanity, finding my greatest comfort and happiness in the sympathy and constant attention of friends. This truth first presented itself to me as a reasonable, practical religion, which not only answered satisfactorily all statements in the Bible over which I had pondered and asked questions,—only to receive unsatisfactory answers,—but it shed a new light upon the whole Bible.

I then began to realize that as Christian Science proves God's words and promises to be true, inevitably God's child is not subject to any material laws. I also realized that God did not create sickness, sin, or discord, as all that He made was good; therefore, God being the only creator, there could be no room or place for sickness, sin, or discord. I began at once to try to prove the truth of these statements, with the result that in less than six weeks I was perfectly well. My nerves had ceased to distress me: a chronic throat trouble, a supposedly inherited stomach affection, etc., also another severe chronic complaint for which I had doctored with a specialist for ten years with only temporary relief, as well as some minor troubles, had completely disappeared.

From overstudy and a great deal of reading my eyes had given out completely while I was still a child, and as I suffered a great deal my parents took me out of school and consulted a specialist. He said the condition was very critical; that he was much afraid I would become entirely blind; so for more than a year I was not allowed to use my eyes. This was the beginning of about fifteen years of almost constant suffering, but when my healing came in Christian Science my eyes were perfectly healed, as well as all the other troubles. I at first decided I would not part with my glasses, but I soon realized that my sight was normal, and that I did not need the glasses, so I took them off. It is now about eight years since my healing took place—eight years of almost perfect health! Only one who has suffered a great deal from ill health can fully appreciate what these years of health and strength have meant to me.

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