Testimony of Healing January 27, 1912 Issue

It is with a heart filled with gratitude and love that I...

Minna M. Gleason

It is with a heart filled with gratitude and love that I tell of my experience in Christian Science healing. Over two years ago I was bound fast in chains of disease by a peculiar throat and lung affection. I had tried numerous physicians and changes of climate, but the only relief obtained, and that was temporary, was when in a much higher altitude. As soon, however, as I returned to a lower elevation I would lose my voice and even breathing was a great effort. I had not been able to speak aloud for some months past, had lost weight, and my courage was fast going, as doctors gave me little if any hope and materia medica failed to relieve me even for a short time; so the days seemed very dark to me.

One day a dear friend told me of a wonderful experience in Christian Science healing. His appearance substantiated all he said, and he asked me, as a personal favor, to try Christian Science just once. I consented, and he at once telephoned to a practitioner for an appointment the next morning. I went merely to please this friend, also several other friends and business associates who had for some time past urged me to try Science. As I had heard a great deal against Christian Science, I asked this practitioner many questions, all of which she answered to my entire satisfaction. I then asked her to treat me. When I left her home I could speak as clearly as I do now and my breathing was perfectly natural and without effort. I fear that had I not received healing immediately, I should have cast Christian Science aside and have been deprived of the joys which I now receive. This healing occurred over two years ago, and I have never since had a return of the affliction.

I am a business woman, and have been able to go to my office every day since that time, and while I am so truly grateful for my physical healing, I am even more grateful for my present understanding of Truth and Love. I have found Christian Science to be practical Christianity. It helps us in business and in all our dealings with our fellow men. It gives us the blessed understanding of God as ever present help, and shows us that Love gives us abundance,—spiritually, physically, and financially. I hope this testimony may help some others to see the way in which we may enjoy all the blessings that are for us. I thank God for all these things, and am grateful to Mrs. Eddy, who has shown us the way to apply this truth as demonstrated by Christ Jesus.

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