Testimony of Healing August 19, 1916 Issue

My healing in Christian Science has been slow, but I most...

Lily G. H. Lambart

My healing in Christian Science has been slow, but I most joyfully bring my "tithes," as I have been much encouraged by reading the testimonies of others. Christian Science has brought me innumerable blessings, but I am especially grateful for having learned to know and love the Bible, for the inexpressible sense of mental comfort I have never failed to find, however difficult earthly conditions have seemed, and for the continual joy of freedom from material law. Although the way is often up-hill and long, I do not grudge the waiting, for I have now learned to rejoice in the "daily bread" and never to think about the future.

I have always had a great fear of chest and lung trouble, but under Christian Science treatment relief has been found almost instantly, and the attacks have been much less severe. I have also been able to overcome colds by myself in a day. Some time ago, while staying with friends who were not Scientists, I had an attack of acute lung trouble. There was a sense of great weakness, so that I could not sit up in bed, but on the second day of absent treatment I was able to get up and go about the house as usual, the difficulty of breathing and the pain having entirely gone. The next day, in wet weather, I walked five miles. The cough was overcome in five days, and there was no relapse of any sort. During this time I was not able to read or work for myself, but I held to the thought, "God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." In the summer of 1914 I was healed within a week of an internal injury, which made it impossible for me to walk or move without pain; but on this occasion I was able to do my own Science work.

When in Paris, alone and unacquainted with any one, I greatly appreciated the services and reading-room of First Church of Christ, Scientist, also the friendliness of the Scientists. While there I had a wonderful experience. I was with a Scientist friend, waiting to get into a tram, when a van came quickly around the corner on the wrong side. I was struck on the shoulder by the shaft and seemed to be falling under the wheels, when I heard my friend say, "There are no accidents in divine Mind," and in a flash these words from Deuteronomy came to me: "Underneath are the everlasting arms." I was enabled to realize this so literally that I recovered my balance and escaped the wheels, being quite unharmed save for a stiff shoulder and a slight sense of shock, both of which were overcome that evening.

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