Testimony of Healing December 13, 1913 Issue

As I am isolated from other Christian Scientists I feel that...

Vinnie Matthews

As I am isolated from other Christian Scientists I feel that I must give expression to my gratitude for this healing truth through the columns of the Sentinel, but I find it difficult to know where to begin and where to end. My first healing took place in Colorado Springs. After having been in poor health for many years, and gradually growing worse, the last two years prior to my healing were spent mostly in a hammock or in bed. We had nine different doctors in those last two years. They did not seem to think me in any immediate danger, but they failed to find anything to help me, and I was very much discouraged.

No one, except those who pass through a like experience, can know how rejoiced I was to find that there is a "balm in Gilead," and a "physician there." I was healed in Christian Science, and in less than three weeks was able to do my housework; but I have always considered my physical healing the smallest part of the good which Christian Science has brought into my life. To know and begin to prove that "now are we the sons of God," and that "now is the day of salvation," is of much greater importance. There is no problem too small to take to God, and there is none too large. Time and again have I proven that God is my strength; time and again have I proven Him to be my source of supply; and we know that all things outside of harmony can be proven unreal, however real they seem to the senses. How glad we are to hear that those confined in prison are gaining a demonstrable understanding of this truth! After all, are we not all prisoners until Truth sets us free, and do we not all have to work, watch, and pray, as our dear Leader tells us, to gain our freedom? I am more grateful to her than I can say for the truth that makes free, and for the help which the periodicals bring to me.—Vinnie Matthews, Willard, Mo.

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