Testimony of Healing May 21, 1910 Issue

About eighteen years ago, Christian Science came to...

Leila Backlin French

About eighteen years ago, Christian Science came to our family through the healing of a cousin, after years of invalidism. My mother, soon after learning of this cousin's healing, purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and though from the first reading I accepted Christian Science as the truth, my study and application of it was but desultory for several years. Physical suffering finally caused me to make a more determined effort to understand this healing truth, and almost immediately it was revealed to me that my lack of understanding was in a great measure due to my failure to take a decided stand for Christian Science. While listening to the remarks of an earnest student of Christian Science and a faithful pioneer of the work in this vicinity, I made the mental resolve to stand on Mrs. Eddy's platform, whether my physical ills were overcome or not, because I knew it to be the truth. The result was the almost instantaneous healing of neuralgia, from which I had suffered more or less from childhood, and which had at that time reached a serious and critical point, holding me in bondage to a powerful drug for relief. From that time to the present I have had but one attack of the disease, and that was of but a few hours' duration.

Since Christian Science has taught me to look to God for my health, strength, intelligence—for everything that presents itself as a need—I have had many beautiful proofs that the Scriptural promises are for us to realize today. I am rejoicing daily in a clearer understanding of God and of the true mission of Christian Science, In cheerful, willing service in the Cause of Christian Science, I feel I can most effectively prove my gratitude to God for the gift of divine Love, and to Mrs. Eddy for her life of purity and devotion

Leila Backlin French, Camden, Me.

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