Testimony of Healing May 4, 1912 Issue

From childhood I suffered from a weak heart, and as I...

Pearl G. Andrews

From childhood I suffered from a weak heart, and as I grew older I continued to manifest weakness of the nerves. I was carefully guarded by my mother from anything that might disturb me, and grew up taking much thought about my body. I was morbid and melancholy and as a result very selfish. I did not improve in spite of all the watchful care given me, but instead the ailments developed into a stomach trouble. Any undue excitement or overexertion brought on an attack which would last several days, and during this time I could not retain any food.

At last (about five years ago) I had an attack which was not overcome for several months, not until God led me to Christian Science, as revealed through Mrs. Eddy. During this long attack I was able to retain food, but could not digest it, and even my throat seemed to be affected. I slept very little and my mental condition was even worse than the physical. I had the aid of physicians, also the tender care of loving parents, and took a great amount of medicine. My brother, a minister, would hold regular seasons of prayer for me, both at home and in his mission. Those seemed hard days, and when I saw that medicine was not meeting this trouble, I went to God and prayed as well as I knew how for Him to help me.

I had promised to be married in the summer (this was March), and I could not believe it to be a very wise action in view of my condition; but I continued to pray day and night that God would not let me leave my home unless a way could be opened up in which I might be a helpmate and not a burden. In June I was married, although still in that wretched condition of mind and body, and came to Cleveland. The morning that I arrived I met a Christian Scientist, and it did not take me long to see that God had led me and that He had opened up the way whereby I could be healed. I accepted Christian Science joyfully and without a regret for materia medica or even an inclination to return to it in all the months of waiting upon God which followed. In our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," our Leader has told us to "wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept. Patience must 'have her perfect work'" (p. 454). It was fully two years before I could say I was absolutely healed. I had a great deal of earnest, faithful work done for me, and through it all I was led to depend upon God in the working out of problems and not upon person. I was taught not only to seek but to strive, and through this individual effort I gained more patience, fidelity, and moral courage.

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