Testimony of Healing February 1, 1913 Issue

I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science

Lucy Lewis

I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science When I first heard of it I was very much in need of help, both physically and mentally. I had met with a great trouble, over which I was brooding, and my health was broken; in fact, I daily prayed for death, thinking that it would end my troubles. When Christian Science was presented to me, however, I willingly accepted it, thinking that if there was any peace to be found, I wanted it.

The thought of physical healing never once occurred to me; what I wanted was something to quiet my mental suffering, and I found it after a short time. I studied very earnestly, sometimes until three o'clock in the morning, and after I had been studying for about three months, I had occasion to ask for treatment. I was taken with a very severe attack of throat trouble. I had been subject to these spells every winter, sometimes twice in one season; but this time I was not frightened as I knew I would get relief. I had been unconscious on account of fever most of the day, and it was during a moment of consciousness that I asked for help in Christian Science. It was given me, and in about three hours' time I was feeling much better. The fever was entirely gone, and only a slight soreness of the throat remained, but I kept my bed until next morning, when I ate my first meal for several days. It was with great difficulty that I swallowed even water at first, but I felt very grateful for the relief received. During former attacks I had always suffered for a week or ten days; but this time I was healed in three treatments, and what is more, I have never had a return of the trouble.

I might mention another instance closely connected with this one, in which divine Love met my need. Before coming into Christian Science, I had for two years nursed a patient who had lung trouble, and every one thought I had contracted the same disease, as I had many of the symptoms. I was troubled with continual colds and had a very annoying cough. By this time I was studying Christian Science, and though I had been treated many times for the cough, I had found only temporary relief. At last came the thought that perhaps it was the old image of disease in my own thought or in the thought of those around me which was causing the trouble, so I told a practitioner about it and she took up the thought of contagion, with the result that in two treatment I was healed. I have not been troubled since with a cold or cough.

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