Testimony of Healing March 4, 1911 Issue

I did not come into Christian Science by the royal road...

Louisa Cooke Don-Carlos

I did not come into Christian Science by the royal road of healing, but through the longer, more tortuous one of studying the world's philosophies and religions; until by weary elimination I found at last the true "world religion" which sets suffering humanity free from the law of sin, disease, and death; the gospel of love and mercy that our Master preached on the Galilean hills two thousand years ago; the revelation of Truth's healing power which Mrs. Eddy has manifested again to us. Many "signs and wonders" have been wrought in our home, and as truth is unfolded in our consciousness I feel like the old-time Englishman who taught his children to rise from each meal and say to their parents, "Thanks for a good dinner," for as each demonstration is made my heart goes out in gratitude to our Leader for her teaching and I realize that, laying aside the human sense of personality, hers must have been the most spiritually developed of the age, in that it was chosen as an instrument to voice the message of God to man.

I rejoice that Mrs. Eddy has interpreted to us the great laws of being so that "a wayfaring man though he be a fool shall not err therein;" that she has made the way so plain that little children can realize man's relation to God, and through this sense of "at-one-ment" overcome the errors that flesh is heir to. Only this week my cook's three-year-old was badly scalded. Having known the benefits of Christian Science for a year, his mother telephoned me, and I at once went to work for him. She then told him the truth as well as she knew, and soon his sobs ceased and he went about his play, free from pain. After a few days the evidences of the severe burn disappeared.

So day after day more of God's goodness is revealed in our lives, and day after day I grow more and more thankful for having been taught to look above personality to Principle, and to follow in the path of peace which Christ Jesus laid out and toward which our Leader has directed our weary, wandering feet. Truly of worthy Christian Scientists it may be said, "They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them; for he that hath mercy upon them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted."

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