Testimony of Healing December 17, 1910 Issue

I am thankful for what I have come to know of God,...

C. P. Sands

I am thankful for what I have come to know of God, through the study of Christian Science; it has helped me in many ways. Like many others, I did not take up Christian Science until it was the last resort. I believed firmly in the Bible, and especially in Jesus' teachings, and also believed that the healing in the Bible was for us if it could be understood. I wanted the truth, and I wanted healing, but I did not want Christian Science, for at that time I thought it merely fanatical teaching but divine Love has shown me the way. When all "other gods" had failed me, when I had no other hope, I turned to God and was healed, and found that Christian Science is the truth of Jesus' teachings for which I had been longing. I can say that I am truly thankful for the trials that brought me to this blessed truth, for Christian Science gave me a foundation on which to stand; it makes me free from everything but good, and gives me an understanding of how and why I exist, for I have learned that man is not subject to chance or change, but subject to the harmonious law of life in God.

I first came to Christian Science about nine years ago. I had been suffering from chronic stomach trouble for a number of years, had tried all sorts of medicine, been treated by a number of specialists, with nothing but temporary relief, and as I suffered continually, life seemed almost unbearable. In this condition I came to Christian Science, and after one week's treatment dropped out because I could not see that anything was being done for me. In a short time, however, I found myself free from misery, and every symptom which had tortured me for years seemed to disappear; also a rheumatic trouble, from which I had suffered for some months, left me; but I would not give Christian Science the credit of healing me, I thought it was the medicine which was finally taking effect. I told my friends that Christian Science might help others, but that it could not help me; that I wanted the healing in the Bible, which was good enough for me. I was not ready for the truth which would make me free; I needed another trial, and it came.

About five years later kidney disease manifested itself, for which the doctors all told me there was no cure. At first I tried all kinds of medicines, but received no benefit. I then went to six of the leading physicians of the city, and they all told me there was no help for me as it was only a question of how long I could hold out, and they gave me from five to nine months at most. Still I was not satisfied, and went to a mineral spring and took baths, but without benefit. On my return I went to a friend who is a physician, who told me I was merely throwing money away by taking medicine, and that the only possible way to prolong my life was by a very rigid diet, which he prescribed. This was the straw which broke the back of error, for while seated at my very limited meal, the "still small voice" of Truth came to me, and I heard the Master's words, "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" I thought, Am I doing this? Then, with one foot in the grave, as it were, I turned to God through Christian Science, and was healed in a very few treatments.

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