Testimony of Healing November 18, 1916 Issue

I have been interested in Christian Science for some time,...

Laura Burckel McDowell

I have been interested in Christian Science for some time, having had an instantaneous healing a few years ago of so-called German measles. I have also been healed of eye trouble for which I had been wearing glasses for two years and which a reputable oculist had told me could only be corrected by wearing glasses all my life; also of a throat affection which I had had for a number of years and which a specialist had pronounced incurable.

In the fall of 1914 I had occasion to prove what Christian Science can do in a financial and business way. My husband lost his position in a small town on account of the general depression. We then came to Atlanta, and the only opportunity offered was one of starting a business of our own. To mortal sense, with conditions as they were at that time, this seemed an almost hopeless undertaking, especially to people without any capital. By help in Christian Science, however, we were enabled to see our way toward obtaining sufficient capital on which to begin a small printing business. My husband was a practical printer. I knew nothing of the business, but being most anxious to do anything to insure success, with the help of Christian Science I attempted the soliciting of business. Through the understanding that the one Mind governs, and knowing my relation to this Mind, I was enabled to succeed beyond my most sanguine expectations. We had so many beautiful proofs of the ever-presence of good that it would take too much space for me to tell of them, but I wish to acknowledge that everything we accomplished was due to the understanding of God as gained in Christian Science.

Since then a trial has come to me which without Christian Science would have been almost unbearable, but through the understanding of this teaching it was transformed into a most sacred and uplifting experience. I was enabled to see the perfect man, to know that there is no sorrow or separation, to realize that nothing can be destroyed in the divine Mind, and through this experience I have gained a much higher conception of universal man in the image of God. I have found Life and Love to be ever present, and sorrow to be only a belief which can be destroyed. I have not words to tell what this means to me.

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