Testimony of Healing August 2, 1913 Issue

At the present time there come to my mind two pictures...

Bertha Friedman

At the present time there come to my mind two pictures of myself, one as I was before I took up the study of Christian Science, and the other after my coming into the true understanding of God and man. The first picture is that of a nervous, discontented, selfish, fearful, unioving, and miserable piece of humanity; the second is in entire contrast, for it expresses health, joy, happiness, meekness, contentment, and, best of all, love. Where formerly I cared but little for any one outside of my own family, meeting in return the same indifference from others, I have grown to love mankind in a way impossible to me before. I have learned how blessed it is to give, and I can now keep the commandment, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," for through the study of Truth I have been enabled to know man as the child of God, and not the offspring of sinful mortal thought. I can love this perfect and true concept of man where I could not love the other false concept. I have also learned to seek the beautiful and the good in all things, instead of looking only for evil, and to seek useful work and activity where previously inactivity and indolence had been my constant companions. The result has been better health, better morals, spiritual understanding, and an earnest desire to live and do for some one else besides myself.

My family recently had a very trying experience, that of the passing on my sister from the accidental discharge of a pistol. But God was truly with us at this time, and our need of comfort was completely met. My grief was entirely healed by realizing that a leaden bullet has really no power to destroy man's life, the Life that is God, and that "man's individual being can no more die nor disappear in unconsciousness than can Soul, for both are immortal" (Science and Health, p. 427).

The desire to be healed of nervous trouble is what first brought me into Christian Science. I had been treated by a specialist for this particular disease, and I tried the "rest cure," being under the doctor's care quite a while, but never experiencing the slightest relief until I began to take treatment in Science. My healing was slow, but gradually I felt myself improving, until today I can say that I enjoy better health than I ever did before. Sleeplessness, weak eyes, and a bowel disorder have disappeared under treatment, and what used to be an ungovernable temper is daily becoming more submissive to the law of Love. I can now see that this slow healing gave me an opportunity to become better acquainted with God, and I am truly grateful for the truth, the knowledge that all health, happiness, and peace belong to me as a child of God, which knowledge came to me during my getting-well process, for it taught me how to continue in well-being and health.

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