Testimony of Healing September 7, 1912 Issue

While living in Concord, N. H., some years ago, I often...

J. A. Grant with contributions from J. A. Grant

While living in Concord, N. H., some years ago, I often saw Mrs. Eddy out driving, and on Feb. 27, 1898, I heard her preach on the ninety-first Psalm at the Christian Science church in that city. Before this time I was inclined to be prejudiced against Christian Science, not knowing what the teaching really was (this was before my healing), but when I heard Mrs. Eddy explain that psalm so beautifully, and say that in gratitude to Jesus for all he had done for her she could wash his feet with her tears, and wipe them with the hairs of her hand, my heart went out to her, and I felt I could never again say anything against Christian Science.

In the Sentinel of Dec. 20, 1900 (p. 253), is the testimony of my first healing through Christian Science, in 1898. That same year we came to California, and after twelve years here my husband and I find ourselves still very grateful for that healing, for it caused us to study Christian Science, and in 1902 we had the great privilege of class instruction. The first year of our study my husband was instantaneously healed of severe headaches, from which he had suffered periodically for years, and thought them hereditary. Our two youngest children, eleven and seven years old, have never taken any medicine, the truth, as taught in Christian Science, having been sufficient for their every need. We are very grateful that we have the "great Physician" always at hand, and we have found, as our dear Leader says in Science and Health (p. 410), that "every trial of our faith in God makes us stronger."We have had so many proofs of the omnipotence of God, with our three children and ourselves, that I long to tell all mothers to cast their burdens on the Lord, and He will sustain them.

One summer vacation, my elder son secured work in a box factory, and in getting up from the floor, one noon, he rested all his weight on a nail, running it into the palm of his hand. He told me about this in the evening, and asked for help. In the morning his hand was quite swollen, and as he went to work he seemed to have a good deal of fear, and said he did not want blood-poison to set in. I assured him that there was nothing to fear; that God is omnipotent, no matter what phase of error may present itself. I worked earnestly for him through the day, and whenever a thought of fear came to me, I remembered the first commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." When my son came home in the evening, not a word was said about his hand, though I noticed he used it freely and that it was normal. In the morning I remarked to him that his hand seemed all right, and he said he had worked all day with it and never thought of it. We both felt we had reason to be very thankful to the giver of every good and perfect gift. At two different times I ran a nail into my foot, but I knew each time that I had my remedy at hand; that by realizing the "scientific statement of being" (Science and Health, p. 468), matter could not do anything. I wore my shoe as usual, and there was no ill effect.

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