Testimony of Healing June 3, 1916 Issue

It seems to me that all my life I wanted something good...

Gussie Ransom

It seems to me that all my life I wanted something good and true, that brought peace and not strife. Christian Science literature was placed in my hands, but at the first reading I was not willing to admit the healing power of divine Truth; however, I felt that I must have a copy of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and immediately purchased one.

For nearly a year I had been subject to attacks of neuralgia, and could not gain even temporary relief, except by taking an opiate. The day I secured Science and Health I felt one of these attacks coming on and decided to take nothing, but to wait until I could quietly read the book for which there was so much claimed, so that I could make sure of the healing power. This was not done in a skeptical way, but every line was read with a prayer to God to show me if it was the truth. In a few hours every thought of pain had left me, and it has never returned. Since I took up the study of Christian Science in earnest and discarded medicine I have not used anything but the healing power of Truth to overcome pain or any supposed physical ailment. That was nearly ten years ago. Up to that time I had, so it seemed to me, been sick most of the time. Periodical pains, for which I had to be under the influence of opiates for several days at a time to get any rest, were overcome, and I seem to be normal in that respect now. My general health is good, and I find that the only sure way to keep it so is to bar out all that is unlike God, good.

The teaching of love and brotherly kindness was what appealed to me when I first read Christian Science literature. It seemed a most beautiful thing that people studied a religion in which there was no strife or pulling for place and power, a religion that taught one so readily to forgive his enemies. But the time came in my personal experience when I had to learn how to forgive my enemies, and I thank God for a religion that teaches the only true way,—teaches one to lose sight of the mortal, material man, and see only God's image and likeness, to know that the only enemy is in one's own thought, the thought entertained that shuts out the Christ-idea. I came to the point where I had to stand still in Christian Science or see this in the right way, and everything I read or studied cried to me of the activity of the divine Mind and the fact that there is progress only through devoted effort. It has been a struggle, a wrestling, but the light is breaking. I owe all I have of health and happiness to Christian Science, and since it would be impossible to enumerate the benefits for which I am grateful, I only hope that I may be able to bring a little of the light so abundantly shed in my own life into the experience of others.

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