Testimony of Healing March 27, 1915 Issue

I have a great deal for which to be grateful in Christian Science...

Helen F. Mccall

I have a great deal for which to be grateful in Christian Science. Prior to my knowledge of it I had severe colds and throat trouble about half the time in winter, the throat difficulty lasting for weeks, even in summer. These ills gradually disappeared. I have had a touch of cold occasionally, however, but it has been overcome quickly by the truth, and was as nothing compared to the condition before knowing Christian Science. A short time ago I had a slight attack of the throat trouble, but it lasted only a day. I read and gave treatment in the evening, and was entirely well the next morning.

Christian Science has proved to me the protecting power of Truth. Once, while getting off a street-car, I fell head first from the platform to the pavement. While falling, there came to me a great sense of safety; it seemed as though something was holding me, I fell so gently. Not for a moment was there any fear, and I got up knowing that I was protected. After reaching home I found my kness bruised, but they had not pained me. This was quite a contrast to an experience I had before coming into Science, when I fell no farther than this yet was laid up for several weeks, and I feel I have every reason to be grateful. It is surely true that "God is our refuge and strength," and "underneath are the everlasting arms."

I am also for the Christian Science literature. On one occasion an article in the Sentinel quoted a sentence from Mrs. Eddy's writings which I thought might be of use some time, so I learned it. That night I was awakened with a great sense of suffering. It seemed so intense that it was an effort to think at all, and the only thing I could think of was, "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true" (Science and Health, p. 261). This I endeavored to do for some minutes, but without getting any relief. Then the sentence I had learned came to me. It was this: "Thou hast no longer to appeal to human strength, to strive with agony; I am thy deliverer" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 132), and the realization of what it meant brought such joy and freedom and gratitude for God's goodness that I must have been healed almost instantaneously. Later I remembered that it was a sense of suffering which had turned my thought to God.