Testimony of Healing October 31, 1914 Issue

In gratitude to God as the great Physician I should like to...

Ardie Houk with contributions from Laura Houk

In gratitude to God as the great Physician I should like to tell of the healing through Christian Science of my little daughter. When she was a year old her body was entirely covered with an angry-looking rash, which grew steadily worse for more than a year, until she could not endure the lightest covering over her at night. A physician was consulted. He pronounced it a skin disease, and in my ignorance of a better way and fearful of what I believed to be an incurable disease, I faithfully applied the medicine he prescribed, but the child grew worse all the while. I then remembered that one of my immediate family had shortly before been healed of this disease through Christian Science treatment, and I asked her to write to the same practitioner, who was then living in an Eastern city, for help. In reply, the practitioner lovingly assured us that disease is not a part of God's "very good" creation, and that we need not fear it; that if we would trust entirely to God we could prove His power and very presence with us in these remote mountains of North Carolina as elsewhere, and that she would begin treatment immediately.

Up to that moment I supposed God had sent this affliction upon us, for I was ignorant of God as infinite good; but on looking up one of the Bible references which the practitioner had given as our authority for denying disease as a power, I read in Genesis, "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good," and I knew then that this affliction was not good or of God, and fear and doubt left me immediately. The child's bodily irritation grew less each day. She slept normally, and the fever and soreness began to disappear,—from the face first,—and at the end of a week she was almost healed. In three weeks the lower limbs had healed over, and just five weeks from the day treatment was commenced every trace of the disease had vanished. That was in July, 1912, and no trace of the eruption has returned.

This undoubted assurance of God's healing power and presence with us in this remote section, where God and His law are so little known, is indescribable in words, and I take this opportunity of thanking those unknown friends who have sent us copies of the Sentinel, Journal, and Monitor. Their contents have been like water to the thirsty.

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