Testimony of Healing January 28, 1911 Issue

It is with the sincerest gratitude that I subscribe to the...

Altha M. Smith with contributions from Barbara Booz

It is with the sincerest gratitude that I subscribe to the following in behalf of what Christian Science did for me in time of need. Having come out of collegiate courses in nursing and materia medica, my path in Christian Science has occasionally taken me to serious bedside work in surgical and obstetrical service. After these experiences the success with the patient is most gratifying, but I would be the one to pay the price in a sense of overwork, anxiety, and doubt, and would be days and sometimes weeks in getting rested and back to a mental calm so that I could resume my usual duties.

Quite recently I have had three successive problems come up for solution, which were most insistent and meant days and nights of continuous service. I called on a Christian Science practitioner for support through these trials, and the answer came gently, quickly, and completely,—that God's work is done, and that I was only an avenue for the expression of that work; that I was taking the light of Truth into these places, and not body, nor past memories of hospital and college events. The result was such a complete realization of the omnipresence of God that I have been able to continue, without a break, all of my regular work, social obligations, also new work which has come daily, and all this without giving an extra hour of time to recuperation. This freedom, coming after eight years of struggle to hold my own after such experiences, has brought a joy and gladness and spiritual sense which I never dreamed of as possible to me.

I therefore most gratefully subscribe to this wonderful healing, and thank God for the infinite possibilites revealed to us by Mrs. Eddy's noble work in giving us the revelation of Truth, Christian Science.

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