Testimony of Healing January 27, 1912 Issue

My gratitude for Christian Science is very great, far...

Evelyn M. Carr

My gratitude for Christian Science is very great, far greater than I can put into words. Over three years ago a copy of Science and Health was placed in my hands, and as I read the book I knew I had found what I had long been searching for. I shall never forget the joy I experienced as the truth dawned on my consciousness. I began to realize what Jesus meant when he said, "Your joy shall be full." Later I proved the truth of his other words, "Your joy no man taketh from you."

I was brought up by good and loving parents, and I often thank God for that upbringing and for the high ideals which were upheld in that home, but when the burden and heat of the day came, the old teaching seemed inadequate to give me the peace and help that I longed for. But from the day I gained that peace through Christian Science teaching, our text-book has been my constant companion, a daily help and comfort. Fear, anxiety, worry have been in a large measure destroyed, and now when trouble of any kind arises it is such peace to know that "in the secret place of the most High" there is a panacea for all ills, a help which never fails. No need now to turn to any human personality for sympathy, when the God whose name is Love has proved so sure a friend.

I have had many satisfying proofs that the law of healing which Jesus demonstrated nineteen hundred years ago is still in operation. Our youngest child, aged three, had been subject to convulsive attacks, which caused us much fear and for which we always called in a doctor. Not very long after we commenced the study of Christian Science, she had the usual symptoms, but the attack was slighter. I held to the truth of being through the night, but in the morning she was still in a high fever. I felt one of the other children with her, reading the ninety-first Psalm, and went down to my work. Presently I picked up the New Testament, and came across these words, "Fear not, believe only: and she shall be made whole." Soon afterward I went upstairs and found the child quite recovered; the fever had gone, and she was bright and smiling, instead of dull and unnoticing. She was dressed and came downstairs, declaring she was quite well, and has never had an attack since.

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