Testimony of Healing November 19, 1910 Issue

Throughout the study of a recent Lesson-Sermon these...

Elizabeth Cutting

Throughout the study of a recent Lesson-Sermon these words of the psalmist have kept recurring to my thought,—"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so." With this admonition came the earnest desire to express the gratitude I have long felt for the work of Truth through Christian Science. Some one has said that if nothing else had been accomplished by this movement than the restoration of weak nervous women to a life of usefulness, it would have done much toward the redemption of mankind. That this has been done in my own case in the last four years is not only a cause of personal thanksgiving, but has meant much in my relation to others, particularly in my work as a teacher.

I started life as a weakling, with very little promise of growing up. For years I struggled against an almost overwhelming sense of constitutional delicacy. I continued my education from year to year, only by the most careful attention to matters of diet and surroundings, my parents sacrificing much, in the mean time, to give me every possible kind of help. Just three years ago I came back from a long vacation, seemingly full of new energy and ready for work, but in just six weeks I had returned to the state of extreme nervous exhaustion which had almost ended my work the preceding spring. This was accompanied by such acute attacks of rheumatic trouble that I was in almost constant agony. These periods of pain kept increasing in duration, until I could scarcely keep my mind on the duty of each hour. I finally saw nothing ahead but to resign my good position and take a year's rest, which meant relying on my relatives for help, as I had no other source of income.

Just as this decision was reached, there came to me in a most unexpected way a timid suggestion from a fellow-worker that I try Christian Science. It was almost wholly a new thought to me. I had tried massage and magnetic treatment, but never had the idea of Christian Science presented itself as anything that might interest or help me. I had read and heard some harsh criticism of it, so that I was somewhat prejudiced, but now, in sheer desperation, I clung to any hope of relief and went at once to a practitioner. Words can never explain the sense of peace that came to me in that first visit. God's "word" was indeed sent quickly with its healing message. I returned to my work the next day, knowing that I could continue and that I should find joy in it. In a week's time the sciatic trouble had disappeared, and I gained so rapidly in every way that many comments were made upon my changed appearance. Since that time several ailments of long standing have been gradually overcome. Perhaps the greatest freedom I have gained is in being able to do away with glasses, which I had worn most of the time since the age of twelve.

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