Testimony of Healing January 9, 1915 Issue

Nearly eight years ago Christian Science was presented...

Lorena P. Hayes

Nearly eight years ago Christian Science was presented to me through a short talk, and my husband's instantaneous release from bondage to stomach trouble. I read the literature at first because I had promised the practitioner I would do so. I had read only a few days, however, when I became convinced that the words "obey" and "understand" were two of the greatest in our language. Then came the opportunity to test how much I could prove of their meaning. I caught the inside of one finger in the catch of an umbrella, and the sense of pain was great, but instantly I remembered that I must not look for the material evidence but deny its every suggestion. I recalled the first two lines of the scientific statement of being, as I had read it on page 468 of Science and Health, when suddenly I realized that the pain had gone as quickly as it came. I stood still in wonderment for a moment, and then there came the suggestion that I was not hurt after all. I therefore looked, only to find the open gash where the flesh had been cut, but there was no pain whatever, even when I pressed my thumb upon the opening, and it healed in a very short time without having been the least bit sore. I was amazed and uplifted beyond my ability then to explain.

The next thing I noticed was that though I had forgotten to take my regular doses of medicine for bowel trouble there had been normal action daily! Such freedom I had seldom known, for among my first remembrances was that of being held while a remedy was forced through my resisting teeth. And now I was filled with gladness, because I was free, and it was the reading of Science and Health that had healed me. From this time on I almost lived in the Bible and our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Demonstrations, one after another, were made over burns, cuts, pain in the feet, and a so-called chronic pain in the chest from which my husband suffered.

One day my husband returned from business about half past ten in the morning and called me to him. As I entered the room, he said, "Call the man and have the horse put out;

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