Testimony of Healing June 18, 1910 Issue

Five years ago I was spiritually starving, physically sick,...

Lu. R. Howe

Five years ago I was spiritually starving, physically sick, and very weary, through trying to come into harmony with the laws of the God whom I dreaded and feared. At this time I was greatly impressed with this verse in the first epistle of John, "Try the spirits whether they are of God;" so I ventured to begin the reading of Science and Health, at the earnest request of a friend, saying that by the fruits of my reading I would judge.

Four experiences stand out in that first reading of our text-book. After reading for some weeks I noticed the absence of a pain of which I had been conscious for months. The pain supposedly came from a chronic intestinal trouble which had not yielded in several years' of material treatment, by various methods and under good physicians. At times I suffered greatly, and always there was the dull pain; but now it had gone entirely. Next came to my attention a mental improvement,—I was learning how to conquer irritation. I had prayed about it, striven daily to conquer it, and again and again had given evidence that the sense of irritation was as great as ever. But in reading Science and Health I could see how right thinking must destroy wrong thinking, and that if God is Love and man is His idea, I could love, not hate, every one and every thing. So I began to drop my false beliefs and learn a little of God, as we are taught in Christian Science.

The next thing was to prove that this truth is demonstrable. I asked my husband if he were willing I should treat him for his eyes, one of which had been injured during boyhood. It came to me quite clearly that sight is spiritual, and being so could not be impaired by accident. I understood very little, but I was in earnest, and teachable. At the end of eleven months my husband took off his glasses, which he had worn for ten years on account of this injury. This was over four years ago. During this same period I desired to prove the availability of Christian Science in a mental condition of inharmony. I had two friends who seemed to be unjust and jealous, toward whom I felt resentment and hatred. I could see that if I desired to grow in the understanding of Truth I must get rid of unloving thoughts, whether I had what seemed a good reason for them or not, so I began to dwell on the thought of God as Love, and to know that the three of us, as His ideas, could only reflect love and be just to each other. I did this daily. It was nearly three years before we met again, when, to my joy, the old state of things had passed away and our relations had become new. There was no sense of hatred, no injustice, no jealousy, and now our frequent meetings give evidence to a true affection each for the other.

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