Testimony of Healing September 7, 1912 Issue

It is over six years since I began to read the Christian Science...

Fannie L. Rossman

It is over six years since I began to read the Christian Science literature, and I have for some time felt a desire to express through one of our periodicals my gratitude for this healing truth. I did not take up the study for the healing of physical ills, as so many do, although I needed this help. It was through a desire to investigate and see what had attracted so many people to its teachings. Two friends here were meeting an afternoon each week to study the Lesson-Sermon, and I asked permission to attend one of their meetings. I was cordially invited to come as often as I wished, but was criticized by other friends for going, and literature condemning Christian Science was handed to me. I continued to go to the meetings, and one of the ladies loaned me a copy of "Miscellaneous Writings" and some other literature, which I was told to keep as long as I wished. This was in December, and all through the winter I read faithfully nearly every night, and during the day, while at my housework, I would keep in thought paragraphs which I had committed to memory.

Spring came, and my husband remarked one day, "It is strange that you have not had a cold all winter." It was the first time I had thought of it, and I then recalled how well I had been sleeping, and decided it must be from the reading of the Christian Science literature, and told him so. My husband was skeptical, but he did not oppose me, and I sent for a copy of Science and Health and a Quarterly. I had, however, much to meet from the antagonistic thought around me, and an old ailment, an eruption which I had had on my hands for ten years, and which materia medica had failed to cure, now became very bad. I decided that here was the test, and that if Science could heal this it would prove the truth to me. The healing was slow, and at times I became much discouraged, once going back to a material remedy; but at last I learned that I must rid myself of all resentment and malice toward those who were reviling me, and thus destroy my fear of the disease. When I began to hold the thought of love for my seeming enemies, the healing came quickly, and it is permanent.

Over two years ago I had the privilege of class instruction, and since then I have been able to help others. I am very grateful to God for my improved health and understanding. I am also grateful to our dear Leader for her life of consecration to the cause of Truth which she discovered.—

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