Testimony of Healing September 14, 1912 Issue

In Proverbs we find this counsel: "In all thy ways acknowledge...

Jennie E. Brown

In Proverbs we find this counsel: "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." In reading this verse, I realized that I had not acknowledged God in all my ways, for I had not publicly given thanks for the blessings which have come to me through the study of Christian Science. Fifteen years ago I was living in New Mexico with my brother, and previous to my going there I had had two attacks of appendicitis, or at least that is what the doctors pronounced the trouble. In looking through my brother's books one day I came across an old copy of Mrs. Eddy's book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and out of pure curiosity I began to read it.

Ridicule was all I had ever heard respecting Christian Science, and I was glad of an opportunity to see what this curious book was like. To say that I was surprised at what I read is putting it mildly, for I at once recognized it as a work of science. My eyes had been in such a condition that I could not read without suffering from headache, but I noticed that my head never ached after reading this book. When about three quarters through the book another attack of appendicitis seized me. Having gone through two sieges of it, the pains were unmistakable. At that time we were eighteen miles from a doctor and six miles from any neighbor to whom we could look for help, and the Rio Grande river had to be forded before we could reach her. My fear was intense, as night was fast coming on and I knew I could not endure the agony any length of time. My thought turned to Science and Health, and believing every word of it to be true, I determined to put into practise what I had learned. I turned persistently from the sense of pain, looked out and up, and after a time very gradually the pain grew less, until by bedtime I was free and happy. The next morning there was no soreness whatever, and no indication of any sort that I had been so ill the night before.

Shortly after this experience I came East to live, and not knowing any Christian Scientists, and only in a vague way that there were such people as practitioners, and hearing all the untruthful things about Mrs. Eddy it was possible for any one to hear, like the Israelites of old I forgot the God who had saved me, and once more I resorted to material means for healing. The fear of climate kept me ill most of the time, and my eyes were a source of constant torture. I was fitted with glasses, but still I suffered. Ten years dragged along, and at the end of that time the doctor decided I could not live in the New England climate, as the almost constant attacks of colds and cough had affected my lungs, and I was confined to the house from October until the following March, with a trained nurse in attendance.

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