Testimony of Healing January 4, 1913 Issue

Friends have repeatedly asked me why I did not give my...

S. L. Hicks

Friends have repeatedly asked me why I did not give my testimony of what Christian Science had done for me, and I have come to the conclusion that it is my duty to do so, as it may be the means of helping others who are striving and praying for more understanding, as I once was. It is over two years since Science was first brought to my notice. My husband was then suffering from a very bad hernia, and one day came home from his shop, unable to work any longer. He went to bed very much discouraged and in great pain. The next day he was a little better, so he dressed and went to consult a doctor, but got no help or encouragement. Soon after he came home, an old friend called to see him, and on learning his condition advised him to try Christian Science, saying that it had healed him, and that he had suffered a long time from the same ailment. My husband decided to take treatment, much against my wishes, though I said nothing. I thought it absurd to suppose that Christian Science treatments could heal him, but after the first treatment (he took only six) my husband went back to his place of business, and he has never lost an hour's work through any illness since.

When he went to take his second treatment, he bought a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and brought it home with him. At first I would not read it, but finally curiosity prompted me to read and see what could be in it, that sensible people had such confidence in. I had not read far before I found it was just what I was hungering for, and through the understanding gained by reading its pages, with now and then an encouraging word from some Scientist friend, I have been healed of an abnormal growth from which I had suffered for years, and from a malignant disease which was more difficult to meet on account of my intense fear. Besides this, I have been healed of neuralgia, headache, a bowel disorder, and various minor ailments.

I was also healed of an error which had caused me many years of unhappiness. My friends would say that I was "too sensitive and self-conscious." I rarely went anywhere that I did not go home unhappy because I thought some one had slighted me or done something unkind. But in Science and Health I learned that we must practise selflessness, self-abnegation, self-immolation, if we wish our steps to trend upward. Then I studied the meaning of the words "sensetive" and "self-consiousness," and concluding that I had caused my own unhappiness, decided that I would overcome this error. Now when I meet my friends and extend my hand in greeting, they grasp it warmly. I hear only words of friendliness, and go home glad that I live in such a beautiful world, where there are such a multitude of dear, lovable people.

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