Testimony of Healing August 12, 1911 Issue

With an earnest desire to offer the cup of cold water...

Renette K. Butler with contributions from James N. Butler, Florence L. Butler

With an earnest desire to offer the cup of cold water to some weary traveler, and thus in the truest way express my loving gratitude for Christian Science, I give this brief testimony of my healing from the distressing effects of heat. With the first warm days of spring I became oppressed by a feeling of weakness and dizziness, which seemed to affect my head. I tried to resist it both by determination and by material remedies, for it interfered very seriously with my plans for work and pleasure, but at times I was so completely overcome as to be unconscious, and for days felt almost too weak to sit up.

When I received my first Christian Science treatment in February I did not mention this condition to the practitioner, as other needs seemed so urgent, but the eager study of our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," began at once to unlock the treasures of the Bible, and for the first time I grasped the potent meaning of those familiar verses from the Psalms, "The Lord is thy helper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night." In our text-book I also found this healing thought, "The planets have no more power over man than over his Maker, since God governs the universe; but man, reflecting God's power, has dominion over all the earth and its hosts" (Science and Health, p. 102). I then saw that the heat of the sun could not make me a sufferer! On page 510 of the text-book I read, "The sun is a metaphorical representation of Soul outside the body, giving existence and intelligence to the universe." Then the sun could not deprive me of God-given intelligence, or consciousness, and energy. I could not be the victim of unconsciousness or even of weakness. Before the warm days came, this happy thought had become a solid conviction, and the ten succeeding summers have held no terrors for me, though I have spent eight hours a day in study during excessively hot weather and have labored in the yard at home for hours in the hot sun.

How can I be thankful enough for this healing, not only of physical misery, but of that feeling of dread and utter helplessness and uncertainty, which is replaced by harmony and confidence in God!—

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Testimony of Healing

Since childhood I had been afflicted with all manner of...