Testimony of Healing June 10, 1916 Issue

My first healing in Christian Science occurred about seven...

Grace Menzies with contributions from F. A. Menzies

My first healing in Christian Science occurred about seven years ago, when I was instantaneously freed from nervous trouble. While from that time I always believed in Christian Science, I have since learned that I did not study as I should to get a clearer understanding of the truth. Several members of my family had passed on from what was termed heart disease by materia medica, and as I had been with my favorite sister during her suffering, fear took hold of me during a recent attack. I am thankful now that my last healing was slow, as it enabled me to gain a better understanding of the truth through persistent study.

I was very much discouraged and impatient, as my thought was filled with fear on account of my symptoms being the same as those of my sister before she passed on. I do not know when the healing took place, but I had treatment from a faithful practitioner for three months. Day after day it would seem as if I could not stand the awful suffering any longer, but each day the practitioner would give me wonderful words of comfort. For two months I lay awake night after night. I could not rise from my bed without help, but tried to realize that God was ever present, and that since I had been healed before, He would surely help me again. Faith in His power to heal was not lacking, but fear in mortal consciousness was keeping me from realizing the truth. After three months my breathing became normal, and the swelling in my limbs began to disappear. Gradually the sleeplessness also left me. I was still weak, but the dreadful nervousness was gone, and I gained strength until I became perfectly normal. I had wasted away to almost a shadow of my former self. About the fifth month I started to gain flesh very rapidly, and after a while was back to my usual weight. I am now entirely well.

The Sentinel and Journal were a great help to me in my distress. I am indeed grateful to Mrs. Eddy for Christian Science.—Grace Menzies, San Francisco, Cal.

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