Testimony of Healing March 12, 1910 Issue

I send this in grateful acknowledgment of the many...

F. H. Hall

I send this in grateful acknowledgment of the many blessings which have come to me through the study of that most wonderful book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, along with the Bible. It is quite impossible to express the joy and peace that I feel, for the spiritual awakening has been most wonderful. I am thankful that I live in these days of revelation, demonstration, and full salvation, and I thank our heavenly Father, who has given to our dear Leader the unction of the Holy Spirit, to lead us up to the pure ideal.

In October, 1903, my sister wrote to me from America, expressing a strong desire to have me with her, as she was living alone. I had been mistress in a manufacturer's warehouse in Sheffield for thirty-eight years, but I gave up my position, and in ten days from the receipt of my sister's letter I was safely landed in her home. We were both very much changed, as we had not seen each other for thirty years. My sister was a loyal Christian Scientist, and although I did not understand this teaching I would question and criticize. But the dear people of the local Christian Science church won my heart. I said to my sister one day that if Christian Science could heal me, so that I might put off my glasses, I would believe in it. She calmly replied that "all things are possible" to those who believe. I had worn two pairs of glasses for thirty-two years, and without them I was practically blind. However, the faithful study of Science and Health, with the Holy Bible, was my stronghold, and I did the work myself. At first every object seemed double, a most painful condition to sense, but I rested on our Leader's assurance that "divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need" (Science and Health, p. 494).

My demonstrations have been wonderful. The ills that have been met and overcome are an injured shoulder, through a fall from my wheel; dropsy; a skin affection; and rheumatism, which was healed instantly. Financial difficulties also have been met, and I am pleased to say that divine Love has used me in the healing of others. In 1904 my first copy of Science and Health was presented to me by some dear Christian Science friends in Evanston, Ill., where my sister resided, and this book I found to be a mine of gold. Hungering and thirsting after righteousness. I continued to dig away. I felt like the man who found treasure in a field. When I left England my other sisters were disconsolate, but I said, "I am only going on a mission, and when it is ended I will come home again." In time a deep yearning to see them again took hold of me, and God bade me, as it were, go over and help them.

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