Testimony of Healing March 12, 1910 Issue

With a heart full of gratitude I testify to the healing...

Alice M. Brown

With a heart full of gratitude I testify to the healing and spiritual uplifting which myself and family have had in Christian Science. My little daughter, when one year old, had a fever which left her with a serious ear trouble. For ten years she suffered with a discharge and deafness. She was growing worse all the time, until she was said to be in a tuberculous condition. Physicians could do nothing, and a specialist said the ear was organically affected. At a moment when she was suffering greatly, I went to the telephone and called a Christian Science practitioner, asking her if she could do anything for my child. Her response was the Master's declaration, "According to your faith be it unto you." I replied that I had no faith, and that I was much discouraged. She said she would treat the child, and from that day to this, over five years ago, my daughter has had no return of the pain, fever, or abscesses, and is now at the age of fifteen, a picture of health and symmetry.

When I said I had no faith, but wanted to try everything, I did not realize that I had left God until the last, as so many do! How often I had broken the First Commandment, and yet I wondered why my prayers had never been answered. How often I had trusted to non-intelligent matter, and how little power I attributed to God. How the Father must have loved me to give me this blessing! We are a family of seven and are all Christian Scientists. My husband has been healed of fever, appendicitis, back trouble; in fact, discords of all kinds have been met for us in Christian Science, and our two little ones know no power or help but God. We are so grateful to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for showing us how to understand the Bible and apply its teachings to the needs of others as well as ourselves. I have proven what Christian Science can do, so I know it to be the truth.

Mrs. Alice M. Brown, Fayetteville, Ark.

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