Testimony of Healing February 25, 1911 Issue

The question, "What shall I render unto the Lord for all...

Albert Marshall

The question, "What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits?" comes to me with the energy that Truth alone creates, and in an earnest hope that Love is leading me to write for the help and encouragement of a brother in need, this is sent. My experience furnished a striking example of that subtle form of weakness ordinarily called strong will-power, otherwise self-will, and it was some months before my thought so yielded to Truth as to "let patience have her perfect work," and to realize the healing of the body. For this seeming delay I am now grateful, because there is beginning to dawn upon me some measure of the promise found on page 96 of Science and Health: "Love will finally mark the hour of harmony, and spiritualization will follow, for Love is Spirit ... all discord will be swallowed up in spiritual Truth."

My gratitude is increased by recalling how Love gave me a foretaste of the joys to come, by early awakening my thought to the consciousness of what Christian Science means, and that this awakening led to hope, and greatly mitigated the physical suffering whose destruction was to be realized later. It is my high privilege to express my gratitude for the fact that, although to some extent a student and worker in young people's lines of church work for about forty years, a few months' study of the Christian Science text-book, in connection with the Bible, filled my consciousness with entirely new concepts of God, and for the first time I really began to love God and the Bible from the standpoint of intelligence and harmony, and to see that it was possible for me to begin to know them aright.

Prior to hearing of Christian Science, some three years ago, a condition of semiinvalidism, covering a period of over twenty years, had necessitated two abdominal operations, and two on my eyes, the former on account of recurrent peritonitis, hernia, adhesions, etc., the trouble with the eyes resulting from a severe injury to the retina. While in 1908 there was very little pain in the eyes, special glasses had to be worn constantly, and there was some headache; but the abdominal condition was causing great distress, and seemed again to be in the condition existent at the time of the second operation, a condition aggravated because of my earnest efforts to conceal it. In addition to ills above enumerated were chronic stomach and bowel trouble, liver, kidney, and bladder trouble; a serious affection of one lung with resultant weak heart, also a complete nervous breakdown, etc. Medicine, surgery, and osteopathy had been faithfully tried for many years, but neither of these had effected a cure, and lately had even failed to afford relief, notwithstanding the faithful attentions of the sympathetic workers whom I am still happy to count among my friends. I was also in bondage to stimulating medicines, to tea, coffee, and tobacco, and a desire for whisky which often led to serious and disgusting excess.

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