Testimony of Healing October 31, 1914 Issue

My gratitude for Christian Science is unbounded

Maude L. Hart

My gratitude for Christian Science is unbounded. My humble prayer is, that my testimony may help some one who is in need, to have the perfect peace that comes through the understanding of God in Christian Science, when this understanding is put into practice. Many times I had heard of Christian Science, and I had never given it a word of criticism or doubt as to what it did for others. For this I am truly thankful. I did not, however, investigate the teachings of this Science, as to their practicability, until I was overwhelmed with disease and all material means had proved of no avail to heal or even alleviate my suffering.

In November, 1905, after almost five months of intense mental and bodily suffering, when my throat was partially paralyzed, the attending physician, who could do no more, recommended that a consultation of physicians be held. As a result he, with half a dozen others, pronounced my afflictions due to blood-poisoning and a malignant growth on my tongue, and they said there was no hope for my recovery. Many years before, my grandfather had passed on with such a growth, so this, according to materia medica, was hereditary.

It was on this day that a friend brought to me her copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and asked me to try Christian Science. I was then ready to become a disciple, and I can never forget the concept of God I gained upon opening the text-book and reading the words, "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings" (Pref., p. vii). My consciousness became illumined with the truth, the light that knows no darkness. "Today" I needed help, and here was the sweet assurance of Love to heal. As I read, I came to our Leader's words in the chapter on Prayer, "The highest prayer is not one of faith merely; it is demonstration," the chapter ending with "the spiritual sense of the Lord's Prayer" (p. 16). I was healed. All fear vanished, and medicines were thrown away; I had been on a diet for months, but now I ate what I wished, and with less pain. My throat was well; I could again swallow naturally. From that hour to this no material means have been used for me or mine; the truth has always sustained us.

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