Testimony of Healing April 8, 1916 Issue

Words cannot express the deep gratitude I feel for the...

Laura Zarbock

Words cannot express the deep gratitude I feel for the moral, spiritual, and physicial benefits that have come to me through the understanding and application of the truth as taught in Christian Science. At my mother's bedside during her last illness eight years ago, a friend who had been healed in Christian Science placed a copy of Science and Health in my hands with the remark that it might comfort me, and it surely did prove a great comfort to both my sister and myself in our sorrow. I read the chapter on Prayer over and over ; it was such a revelation to me to learn that "the habitual struggle to be always good is unceasing prayer" (p. 4). How easy to understand, and yet how difficult for mortal sense to follow!

A few months after becoming interested in Christian Science, I joined our little church, and the very next day error tried hard to shake my faith. I was taken with an attack of neuralgia caused by an ulcerated tooth. Though young in Science, I am grateful to say that I called on a practitioner for help, but I grew very impatient because my healing was not instantaneous. I also listened to my family's advice to have the tooth extracted. The dentist, however, said this would be impossible, owing to its condition, and told me to use hot poultices and return in the morning. When I reached home my consciousness seemed to be flooded with the first commandment, and I threw the poultice into the stove. Another remedy was suggested, but again the right thought prevailed. The last words of the practitioner that night, "Do not forget which side you are on," helped me to win the battle, and I fell asleep. Eight years have passed since then, and in all that time the tooth has never troubled me again, and it is as sound as ever.

For many months I was afflicted with an external abnormal growth that caused intense pain, but neither my husband nor any other member of the family, nor friends, knew of my suffering. I felt that if they did it would mean extra work for both the practitioner and myself to quiet their fears. The healing seemed very slow, but I am grateful that it was, for now I realize that not until the human thought is spiritualized can true healing take place. Two weeks previous to May 3, 1914, I knew that the demonstration was made, though the physicial conditions were unchanged ; I realized so clearly the nothingness of matter and the allness of Spirit, that all fear vanished, and I told the practitioner I believed the time had come for me to take my stand with God. On May 3 the growth came away, and I have had no pain or bad effects since. I should like to add that the Christian Science Hymnal filled an important part in this demonstration.

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