Testimony of Healing January 4, 1913 Issue

In the fall of 1904, I began the study of Christian Science...

Mana W. Fisher

In the fall of 1904, I began the study of Christian Science with the hope that it would help me to control a violent temper. I am glad to say that this disposition has been entirely overcome, and when I had been reading the literature for about four months I was able to lay aside glasses which had been worn a number of years for defective vision and badly granulated lids. My sight is now normal and the lids clearer than they ever were.

I had been studying Science a few years when I seemed in need of a surgical operation, although I found temporary relief from pain several times in Christian Science. But the complete healing of this particular trouble did not come quickly, and after about two years I became greatly depressed and discouraged, and decided to have a physician take the case. With this in thought I went to talk with a Christian Science practitioner, and during our conversation she asked me if I had really given Christian Science a trial. I replied that I certainly considered I had, and she gently asked, "Have you let 'nothing but His [God's] likeness ... abide in your thought' (Science and Health, p. 495)?" I was forced to answer "No;" and she again asked (quoting from What Our Leader Says), "Do you keep your mind so 'filled with Truth and Love that sin, disease, and death cannot enter'?" and humbly I answered that I did not. Then she told me that until I had followed these directions, I had not given Christian Science a fair trial.

This talk awakened me, and I went home greatly encouraged and resolved to keep my consciousness full of good only. Words cannot tell of the spiritual uplift that I had during this endeavor, in learning passages from the Bible and Science and Health, and in knowing that every word of them was for me. I stayed at home, and did not see any one but my family, for I felt that my time was too precious to be wasted. I was so hungry for the truth, and I was being filled; I was dwelling "in the secret place of the most High" (living on as high a plane as I understood). At the end of two weeks there was no need to go to a physician, as I was well and happy and have been until this day. This spiritual uplift gave me a great desire to learn more of Christian Science, and how to study it in the right way, and in less than a year I received the blessing of class instruction.

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