Testimony of Healing August 27, 1910 Issue

Words can never express my gratitude to God, and to our...

Eliza Huddart

Words can never express my gratitude to God, and to our dear Leader, for the healing and the understanding which have come to me through Christian Science. I had suffered for more than twenty years from internal hemorrhage, and from 1897 was a confirmed invalid, spending most of the time in bed. For eighteen months before hearing of Christian Science I had lived on the ground floor, and when I was able to go out was wheeled in an invaliad carriage. My doctor advised me not to walk or exert myself at all, and I had not been out since September, 1907. I was just waiting patiently for the end to come, and perfectly resigned to what I believed to be the will of God. I had been an active worker in an orthodox church for more than thirty years, and had taken a prominent part in religious, social, and temperance reforms of the day, therefore the hardest lesson I had to learn was to be still,—to be obedient to the command, "Be still, and know that I am God." The Bible was very precious to me at this time, and I believed I was still serving the Master while lying in bed, because the ministers of the different churches who visited me said that my life was an inspiration to them.

At the beginning of May, 1908, a lady called to see my daughter on business. She was a stranger to me, but for convenience was shown into my room. She began to talk to me, saying she had often heard of my being an invalid, and asked me if I had ever heard of Christian Science. I said I had not. She told me that, according to its teachings, it was not God's will that I should lie there, but that I should be active and useful. At first I felt that the faith I had in God was pefect, but as she talked and related to me a wonderful case of healing, I began to see that what she said was true, and she promised to let me have some Sentinels to read. After she had gone, I thought over her conversation, and asked myself why I should not be healed. I professed to be one of God's children, and I knew that He is no respecter of persons; but I thought it would be marvelous if it were so, after all these years.

As I opened my Bible, my eye lighted on the text, "For with God nothing shall be impossible." I gave a start, and said, "Why, that is for me!" and I believe the hemorrhage was healed immediately. This was on Friday afternoon, and on Sunday and Monday I got up to my meals, and there was no relapse. On Tuesday I asked for my clothes, but my daughter begged me to be careful. I assured her that it was all right, and I was dressed for the first time in nearly two years. Each day I got up a little earlier, and the following Sunday I went out to tea and also to church, and after the service walked about half a mile in the country. I never had any relapse. All my other ailments gradually disappeared,—cough, chronic bowel trouble, and various other ills,—and today I am feeling younger and more vigorous than I can remember doing; in fact, lift is now worth living. I am an astonishment to all my friends; I have just returned from a two-months holiday among the Derbyshire hills, where I have been able to walk miles in a day, continuously. The joy of being able to help myself and to minister to others makes life a pleasure that words fail to express.

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