Testimony of Healing March 22, 1913 Issue

I am very grateful for Christian Science, in view of what...

Amelia S. Briggs

I am very grateful for Christian Science, in view of what it has done and is doing for me. It is only a little over a year since I began to study, but I have been healed of many chronic troubles, having been an invalid for thirty years, though not until everything else failed would I try Christian Science. It was prejudice that prevented me, but when I finally cast prejudice aside, then the truth came to me and set me free from the fetters of invalidism. Recently I had a wonderful demonstration. One morning I awoke to find myself bound to the old belief of rheumatism, for I could not turn my head or lift myself up. I had no means of reaching a practitioner, as I was alone and had no telephone, so I felt I must work hard to enable myself to get up and dress. After an hour's work of declaring the allness of Truth, the power of divine Love, and the utter nothingness of matter, the pain was less, and I found I could raise my head and lift myself up. All the time I was dressing I kept on declaring the truth, and I was enabled to get out to breakfast and take a walk, feeling so much better that I thought I could help myself. Through the day I had intervals of pain and stiffness, and at night felt so much worse again that I made up my mind to go the first thing in the morning to a practitioner; but when I awoke in the morning, there was no need, and I felt deeply thankful that through the power of Truth I had been enabled to help myself.

Another time I was taken very ill with what the doctors had called acute gastric trouble, with fever, headache, and great prostration. I was in too much of a stupor to help myself or to read Science and Health, so I sent for a practitioner, who treated me for three days. I did not even have to go to bed, but kept up and did a few things around the house, knowing that Truth would prevail, and on the fourth day the pain and distress left me, and I was out in the garden working. I have had these attacks for years, but always before this the doctor would order me to remain in bed for a week, and it would be at least a month before I regained my strength.—Amelia S. Briggs, La Jolla, Cal.

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