When reading the Sentinel week after week, the thought...

Blanche Royds

When reading the Sentinel week after week, the thought comes to me, Why are there not more testimonies from England? Then I realized that I was expecting more from others than I was doing myself. Others might well ask, Have you nothing to be grateful for? Are you hastening to thank God for all the benefits He has bestowed upon you through Christian Science? So I now, with shame for the long delay, send my testimony, hoping it may be of some help to others, or at any rate show that I am anxious not to be one of the nine lepers who returned not "to give glory to God."

It is about five years since I began to study Christian Science, though not at first for its healing; but before I had made many inquiries, a dear friend asked if she could help me. Not understanding what she meant, I said I would go on studying Science and Health, and if I should require anything explained I would come to her. She then told me what she meant, and I said I was thankful for being very much stronger than I had been, but that there were some internal troubles which I had suffered from since I was a child. She replied, "Why go on keeping a thing that does not belong to you?" and then she promised to help me if I would leave off all medicine for a week. I gave the promise very reluctantly, as I had had (or believed I had had) two strokes and had been told by the doctors that another one might be fatal, and that one of the most important things was to avoid increasing the internal bowel trouble, for which I had taken medicine nearly every night for years. I gave the promise, however, and although I spent a week of fear and discomfort I was healed of this disorder and have never taken any drug or material remedy since.

I had worn glasses for over ten years, but I have been able to lay them aside, knowing that man's sight is spiritual; and I can now read, write, and sew by daylight and lamplight. I also suffered very severely from varicose veins, my leg feeling like a great weight to lift. This disease was healed and removed in less than thirty hours, and has never returned. I had also a great fear of heart trouble, which I had been taught to believe might be inherited. I began to have some of the usual symptoms, and great fear caught hold of me, but I had treatment in Christian Science, and in a few days I was well. I now know that I can only suffer from my own wrong thinking, speaking, or acting, and from no one else's fear.

Twice I have had a sharp attack of lung affection, once before I knew about Christian Science. Then I was laid up with doctors and two hospital nurses for quite six weeks, besides being tortured by the severe remedies and half ruined by the expense. It was nearly three months before I could go about as usual. The second time, knowing well what was wrong, I wired for a practitioner to come to me, and she did her work so well that in three days I was out and attending a board meeting of our society. I had not stayed in bed, nor had I had a fire in my room, though it was a cold spring and the symptoms of this attack appeared quite as acute as in the former one. Many other things have I come out of through a better understanding of divine Love; but above all these physical blessings, for the uplifting and change in myself, words cannot express one half my gratitude. I must be far easier to live with now, since I am learning to set a watch upon my thoughts that I offend not with my tongue. I have proved over and over again that as we give out love to God and to our neighbor, so are we taking in a double supply, and also I have proved how true are these lines, written by a little Scientist,—

The power of love alone the world can sway,
Good must prevail;
If naught but love dwell in my heart this day,
Nothing I do can fail.

I do most deeply and with my whole heart thank God for His love and mercy in leading me into Christian Science, and I have the most loving and heartfelt gratitude to our brave Leader, who through untold opposition has by her steadfastness and love been the pioneer to Christian Science, helping and guiding her faithful students all over the world.

Blanche Royds, Havant, England.

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