Testimony of Healing October 7, 1911 Issue

Out of the fulness of a thankful heart I will try to tell,...

Eugenie S. Hauser

Out of the fulness of a thankful heart I will try to tell, at least in part, what Christian Science has done for me within the past six years. I was healed of a serious abdominal trouble of six years' standing, after having tried many remedies prescribed by several eminent physicians. My kind home physician said, "Wiser men than I am have found this malady to be incurable," so I gave up all medicine, also dieting, etc., and began to search for Two years more passed, in which a complication developed that rendered life a burdan and death was looked for as the only means of escape.

About this time a copy of The Christian Science Journal me, and after reading what to me was a remarkable experience,—the healing of a so-called incurable disease,—I knew that this was the same healing which Jesus did, and that Christian Science must be the right practice. I felt that Jesus' work was again being done upon earth through the power of God understood, and I was filled with joy, because I knew I should find it. For several weeks I read some copies of the Journal many times, friend brought me the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." After nine months of constant reading and study of this wonderful book, by day and night, my physical healing was complete, insomuch that heart failure, defective eyesight, a dropsical condition of the lower limbs—all painful conditions—were gone. I could walk and even run without fear of exhaustion. I was not only healed of the disease, but I was changed, radically changed in mind and method. I had learned that God is good and good only; that man as His idea reflects good and good only.

During the past six years of study I have been healed of a sense of grief and bitterness, disappointment in personality, and sin. I have learned that selfishness is always sorrowing, and profiting thereby my whole life, even to my facial expression and my voice and figure, has changed. Every day I am grateful because I can see God and man more nearly aright. Loftier aims and holier purposes possess my thought, while "joy is no longer a trembler nor is hope a cheat" (Science and Health, p. 298). I am deeply grateful to God for giving mankind this healing truth through Mrs. Eddy, because in her teaching I find the living, saving presence of Christ that glows through the hearts of men, redeeming them from sickness, sin, and death. I am grateful to her for giving me a concept of God as All, and just, and infinitely tender toward all His creation,—the God that is Mind, eternally governing and guiding each and every obedient disciple through the consecrated life and irrevocable word of His messenger. I am likewise deeply thankful for all that Christian Science has done for all mankind. Words fail—they that love will understand.—Eugenie S. Hauser, St. Louis, Mo.

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