Testimony of Healing April 23, 1910 Issue

Christian Science was impressed upon my mind about...

Lettie Travis

Christian Science was impressed upon my mind about twelve years ago, by reading an article in a religious paper warning people against it as a dangerous doctrine. My husband being a minister, I supposed every other religion than his was wrong and that our church only was right; so I hugged my tatters all the closer to me, for error was not willing to be unrobed so that the winds of God could blow on us. But, as Mrs. Eddy says, "either here or hereafter, suffering or Science must destroy all illusion" (Science and Health, p. 297), and I came through suffering. Five years I dieted for stomach trouble, and got worse all the time; then was almost an invalid for two years with female trouble. After exhausting the skill of doctors and their remedies, I tried different kinds of mineral waters, but all to no avail.

As I was not expected to live long, it was thought best for me to visit my mother in Kentucky, and while there I heard that a cousin had "gone off with the Christian Scientists." I ventured to ask what the Christian Scientists believed, and was told that they claimed to heal people. Health was what I had been diligently searching for, so I decided to visit this cousin. I wrote her that I would pay her a visit before I returned to Texas, and thought that by so doing I could discern for myself her mental condition; if she proved to be unbalanced, I need not tell any one why I went to see her. I went, saw, and was convinced. I was so thoroughly convinced that I even condescended (?) to ask for treatment; but that day ended my dieting for stomach trouble, and all the other troubles disappeared as well. She gave me a copy of Science and Health, and I read it to learn how people were healed physically, and to my surprise I read myself into a religion "where fetters fall and the rights of man are fully known and acknowledged" (Ibid., p. 227). I saw that this is indeed the Comforter that guides into all truth, and reveals the God "who healeth all thy diseases." I have of course severed my connection in the church with which I had been identified so long.

Coming to a restless, suffering, but thinking humanity, this religion, though its progress may be seemingly slow, must be victorious in its overcoming of error and be recognized as the true "balm of Gilead."

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