Testimony of Healing October 7, 1916 Issue

Though tardy, this loving tribute of joy and appreciation...

Bertha L. Heiss

Though tardy, this loving tribute of joy and appreciation for what Christian Science has done and is doing for me comes from a grateful heart. More than twenty years ago I was a physical wreck, with a life of invalidism ahead of me. The pain was constant and sleep impossible without drugs; indeed, I was much like that woman of old who "had suffered many things of many physicians."

Often I would wonder why the so-called skilled physicians so widely differed in their diagnosis of my case, and was between hoping and fearing, wondering and doubting, if a prospective operation for an injured spine would bring relief from pain and suffering, when Christian Science, the promised Comforter, found me. "Have faith in God" was our Master's injunction, and oh, how I longed for that faith! But faith must become understanding, and to my suffering, drugbenumbed senses this word loomed like a great wall. As the truth streamed in upon my darkened thought, I could only shed tears at my sorrowing and helpless condition, which seemed so real. Thus for several years the battle went on, and one by one the diseases vanished without my knowing when or how, so gently unobtrusively is the healing work performed by the word of God.

For several years I have been physically whole, and in earning my daily bread have proved that God is my health, my strength, my life. From a diffident, sensitive, self-conscious, selfish woman, I am learning to be independent, free, and happy. Best of all, that glorious thing, understanding, as found in Christian Science, is no longer a wall of words, but an intelligent, living way to the great reality, God, and to the only existence, that is, man and the universe in the image and likeness of the one Spirit, who blesses all from an infinitude of love. My desire is to press on and grow daily in that truth and grace which our God-inspired and faithful Leader taught and demonstrated.

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