Testimony of Healing April 23, 1910 Issue

Within sight of the feast prepared for me in my Father's...

Alvin T. Steinel

Within sight of the feast prepared for me in my Father's house, I had for a long time tried to subsist on the husks of materialism, but an acute attack of rheumatism opened my eyes to my condition, and I was brought to a state of spiritual and bodily health under Christian Science treatment. I want to add my testimony to those of thousands of others, so that any one in trouble may read and know that there is an ever-present and an ever-ready help for all their woes. I can attest not only to the wonderful healing power of Christian Science, from my own experience with this disease, but can tell of my experience under materia medica. Before I cared to know anything about Christian Science I was stricken with the disease. Material remedies were applied, but to mortal sense I suffered torture, and the relief I got was only temporary. I was carried about like a babe, utterly helpless, my body racked with pain. I was spiritually blind, and the blind were trying to lead me.

How different my recent experience! I say it with the conviction of truth that this experience was from its inception a blessing. My bodily healing is complete, but how much more beneficial has been the spiritual healing! My eyes have been opened to the everlasting truth. I can see clearly the path that leads to my Father's house. Even now I am enjoying the feast which had been prepared for the return of the prodigal, and what a welcome home it was! No words can express what I felt during those weeks of suffering, but I have been made to lie down in green pastures; I have been led beside the still waters; I have quenched my thirst at the living fountain of Truth; I have felt the unending power of divine Love. What more could one ask?

Science and Health with the Bible has been my medicinechest, and a loving disciple of Mrs. Eddy has administered the spiritual food as it was needed. I realize the force of Isaiah's words: "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy; and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price."—Alvin T. Steinel, Fort Collins, Col.

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