Testimony of Healing May 11, 1912 Issue

Christian Science has done so much for me that I cannot ...

E. Della Wood

Christian Science has done so much for me that I cannot find words to express my gratitude. It healed me of locomotor ataxia after I had exhausted every material means known and available. Christian Science was then given a trial and in a short time it was proved to me that God is all powerful.

The practitioner who treated me said to me that it was only fear and doubt of God's power to keep me from falling that prevented me from walking. While thinking of what she had said I happened to read in Science and Health these words: "The illusion of material sense, not divine law, has bound you, entangled your free limbs, crippled your capacities, enfeebled your body" (p. 227). I there and then made up my mind to trust God, so I asked my husband to help me to go to a tree in front of the house. He said I was insane to propose such a thing. (He did not believe in Christian Science then, but, thank God, he does now.) I finally persuaded him to do as I had requested, and after he had placed me against the tree I requested him to go into the house and not watch me. I stood there for a few moments and repeated some words spoken by my practitioner to the effect that the arms of divine Love were underneath and around me. I then started for the next tree, which was about ten feet away, and just before reaching it I thought I was going to fall, but I reached the tree safely. I started for the next one, and a neighbor who saw me seemed frightened at seeing me there alone, having been used to seeing me in a wheeled chair, but I begged her not to look at me as I was trying to learn to walk again.

I started for another tree, feeling stronger, and convinced that I could lean "on the sustaining infinite" (Science and Health, Pref., p. vii). This brought me to the corner, and the tree was about twenty feet distant, but I reached it all right. This brought me to the practitioner's home. When she saw me she said, "Oh, thank God!" We passed an hour thanking God, and remembering to be grateful to our dear Leader, for it was the realization of the truth of her words in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" which had enabled me to assert my dominion over physical law. I walked home and I never used a wheeled chair again.

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