Testimony of Healing November 27, 1915 Issue

I first became interested in Christian Science through my...

Sara Abbott Bruce

I first became interested in Christian Science through my mother's wonderful healing, and began to study it principally to learn how such a healing could possibly have taken place, and also to learn how to be able to help others, as I knew so many who needed help and did not seem to be getting it. I had no particular physical ills, except that for eight years I had suffered agonies from fallen arches, although I had doctored for this trouble the greater part of that time. During the first month's study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" I realized the disappearance of this suffering, and have never had the slightest return of it since.

At this time I had been married five years, and had continuously entertained excessive fear over a law that had been made for me in previous years,—that I would never be able to survive childbirth. This torturing fear was gradually overcome as I grew in the understanding of God's loving care, and after a perfectly harmonious spring, summer, and fall, our first child was born to us in November, 1904. Conditions had been so harmonious that our near neighbors and friends were not even anticipating the arrival. I had with me a Christian Science nurse, and the little fellow's coming was so peaceful that we even had him dressed for his night's rest before we called my husband. I passed as restful a night as I had ever had, and when morning came and breakfast was over, I wrote to my mother and then sat up a while. We have become the parents of two little ones since then, and the coming of each has been marked with the same harmony as attended the first.

I am deeply grateful for these and many other satisfying demonstrations of the power of divine protection from physical suffering, but more so for the spiritual uplift. I rejoice each day that Christian Science came into our home before the arrival of our children. There has never been a time when I have felt the slightest hesitancy to depend entirely upon it to heal every discordant condition that has overtaken them. More than that, I have rejoiced that we have found this remedy which is according to divine Principle, and which is reliable and far superior to any possible man-made system.

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