Testimony of Healing July 31, 1915 Issue

I wish to say how sincerely grateful I am for all that...

Madge M. Elder

I wish to say how sincerely grateful I am for all that Christian Science has done for me. Although I have no great physical healing to record, the good that has come to me is immeasurable. Some one once said to me that many of the testimonies she had heard at one meeting were very trifling ailments, but had she realized the moral sweetening and brightening of life that accompanies all Christian Science healing, she would have seen that no healing is too trifling to make one thankful. It is often the little discords, the petty cares and worries, that make life bitter, and if Christian Science had only healed us of these it would have earned our gratitude.

Before coming into Christian Science I used to take medicine regularly, but one night, after reading Science and Health, I declared for Truth and did not take the usual dose. Until then I had not accepted this teaching, but the immediate help I received filled me with wonder and joy, and I knew I had found the "pearl of great price." Although the complete healing was slow, it has been perfect and permanent, and I am far healthier and happier than I was before. I used to have a great deal of sickness, but have had only a few attacks since I began the study of Christian Science, and each time I have been healed very quickly.

I used to think how beautiful it must have been to be healed by Jesus, and what wonder and joy and gratitude must have filled the hearts of the sick and sorrowing. Now I know that even today there are hearts filled with this same joy and gratitude, not only for the ease from pain, but for these proofs which bring the "sweet and certain sense that God is Love" (Science and Health, p. 569). Christian Science has also healed me of intense morbidness, and that is one of the things for which I am most grateful. This morbidness, coupled with an uncontrollable imagination, was daily gaining a firmer hold on me, until it finally resulted in a nervous breakdown for which I had to go to a doctor and leave home for several weeks; but Christian Science has lifted me above all that, and now I no longer fear to be left alone with my thoughts, for I know that no thoughts are real but those of love and peace.

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