Testimony of Healing March 1, 1913 Issue

After five years of intense suffering, from a very severe...

Mary Modena Holbrook

After five years of intense suffering, from a very severe and peculiar pain in my head, and many complications supposed to be caused by internal organic trouble, I was healed by Christian Science in October, 1909. I had tried different climates in Texas, staying a short while in a sanitarium, and had treatment from eight different physicians, among whom were specialists. At times I was not able to sit up, and in the fall of 1908, while staying at my sister's home, I became so discouraged that I did not know what to do, where to go, or where to look for help. My brother, of Nashville, Tenn., then wrote my brother-in-law to send me there, and he would see what could be done for me. While making preparations to go, I was suddenly taken very ill, which prevented my leaving for Nashville before March, 1909. For seven months I tried different physicians and specialists, who were very kind and did all they could for me. My brother is not a Christian Scientist, but his business partner is, and he sent the Sentinel and other literature for me to read. I was a church-member, but I read everything he sent, though partly as a matter of courtesy, as I did not seem to understand it and thought Christian Science to be something apart from God.

One Sunday morning my brother came to my room in a very discouraged state of mind, saying that it was no use to trifle about the matter any longer; that the doctors were at most giving me only temporary relief, and that I might be an invalid for life if I continued as I was. He also said that I should go to a Christian Science practitioner for treatment at once. After he left my room I wept, and prayed to God not to leave me, but to go with me and that I would see what Christian Science was; if it were not of God, I would steel myself against it and not be harmed. It can be imagined how differently I felt when the practitioner said to me that God loved me and did not want me to be sick.

During five years prior to this I had suffered from a stomach trouble, but I was healed in that first treatment, the practitioner telling me to eat anything I wanted, knowing that it would not hurt me. The pain in my head was relieved during the first treatment, and though it returned at times for several months afterward, my faith never wavered that God had healed me, and when an attack came on I would apply the truth as best I knew how, get up, and go on about my work. I had also worn glasses for eight or nine years, but laid them off the first week I was in Christian Science and have never worn them since. Formerly I could not understand why I should suffer so, but now I know it was only a false material sense. I was gently led to Truth and Love through Christian Science, and I praise God, "from whom all blessings flow."

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