Testimony of Healing July 16, 1910 Issue

My attention was first directed toward Christian Science...

G. L. Meholin

My attention was first directed toward Christian Science over two years ago, when by a realization of the truth it teaches, and the help of a practitioner, my wife was healed of a trouble which the physician had said that nothing but an operation would benefit. He also said that this would have to be performed at a hospital and was very likely to be followed by a year or more of invalidism and suffering. Her healing was a beautiful demonstration of the power of divine Principle, and ever since we have had no other help than that of Christian Science to overcome all our difficulties. When the surging billows of adversity have run high, we have found that "the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;" that every cloud is only mist, and they all have silver linings, because the sun is shining behind them all. And now, instead of sickness there is peace, harmony, and joy unspeakable. My wife has spent all her spare time in study, from the first of her grand experience, and I also for the last six months. We feel that as yet we have only a glimpse of the grandeur of this truth, and we often stand in amazement in our anticipation of the glory to be revealed when the light of divine Science shall shine full-orbed upon the world.

Were I to enumerate all the blessings I have received through Christian Science it would make a book, but I shall speak particularly of one demonstration which proves to me absolutely the efficacy of divine healing. I am a veterinary surgeon, and conduct a veterinary hospital. During the spring season I am frequently called to treat horses affected with fever. Occasionally a case occurs where certain violent symptoms are manifested, which I have never been able to treat successfully; indeed the authorities say that treatment is useless and recovery not to be expected. I have a fine driving horse, one of a team, which was thus affected last winter, and which manifested alarming symptoms. I commenced treatment at once in the usual way, but as the disease runs a typical course my treatment had little or no effect. After three or four days I gave up and telegraphed a Christian Science practitioner for treatment. There was quite a struggle for a few days, and one evening the horse seemed to be suffering intensely and was in a semiconscious condition. I was alarmed, but I went home and commenced to read Science and Health with my wife, and succeeded in overcoming a fear which I had heretofore been unable to master. I went back to the box, and much to my surprise and gratification the horse was resting peacefully with no fever; was breathing naturally and was conscious, though quite weak. She recovered rapidly and I was soon driving her. The first drive it seemed difficult to hold her in.

Now a word of encouragement to those who have always worked hard but who have been unsuccessful in almost every attempt, for such was my own experience until I found God aright in divine Science. I know how happy I am that success is indeed mine, and the way is open to freedom from financial difficulties, which were fast bringing hard lines to a troubled brow and instilling bitterness into my life which has had no place there since I have learned of Christian Science, and I can say, "Be still, O heart of mine, and cease repining; the future ways are beautiful and bright." Our way may bring us to a point the outlook from which shows a path rugged and broken, but over it shines the sunlight of divine Science and we see the obstructions melt into the nothingness from whence they came, for they are only shadows, waking dream-shadows perhaps, under which lies the firm and solid footing of the "straight and narrow way" which leads to life everlasting, on and on, up and up.

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