Testimony of Healing September 2, 1916 Issue

Near the end of 1910, when I was practising for an entertainment,...

Isabelle Taber

Near the end of 1910, when I was practising for an entertainment, a severe cold developed with violent coughing, and finally, after falling in a faint, I concluded it was best to summon help. My mother and I were the only ones in the household who relied on Christian Science in times of illness, and there was no church nearer than thirty or forty miles, while the practitioners in this state were unknown to us; so we wired to Chicago, nearly six hundred miles distant, and clung steadfastly to the fact which Mrs. Eddy says "covers the whole ground, that God, Spirit, is all, and that there is none beside Him" (Science and Health, p. 421). My brother-in-law, a physician, pronounced the case "lobar pneumonia," but in spite of the frequent fits of coughing I read the Bible and Science and Health so as to receive their cheerful messages and lessons in faith and confidence in God as all-power.

Soon after receiving a telegram from the practitioner in Chicago, bidding me "fear not," the symptoms became more favorable, and before long I was able to sit up and forget the body in the endeavor to replace resentment with love and to abide in Spirit. A lingering soreness in the lungs kept the body bent, but it was relieved by the continual realization of the Biblical statement that "God hath made man upright," and "without him was not any thing made that was made." In about a month and a half I was out again, driving three miles in the cold, working about as usual and recovering lost weight.

This experience has brought greater assurance that our weapons, though not carnal, are "mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds." Our great work is to spiritualize consciousness and awake to our heritage as children of God.—Isabelle Taber, Castile, N. Y.

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