Testimony of Healing January 13, 1917 Issue

For a number of years I have wanted to tell the world of...

Marie J. Adams

For a number of years I have wanted to tell the world of my wonderful healing in Christian Science. In July, 1903, I was suddenly taken very ill while on a train which was going to New York. On arriving in that city I at once consulted a physician, who declared that nothing could save my life but a surgical operation, and that at once. As I came from a family of doctors I was familiar with the details of surgical operations and had many times affirmed that under no conditions would I ever submit to one. I therefore begged a little time to consider the matter, but my physical suffering was so intense and increasing so rapidly that I realized it could not be endured very long.

Then in my extremity I remembered that a friend of my childhood, living in New York, had been healed in Christian Science. I sent for him and found his trouble had been nervous breakdown, which seemed but trivial in comparison with the affliction that had come to me. When I asked him if he thought Christian Science could help me, he assured me without any hesitancy that it could heal me. Though resenting his assurance, I decided to try it, although with no confidence that it could really heal me. I was quite indignant when my friend advised my walking several blocks to the practitioner's office, as I had not dared to leave my room for fear of being seized with the paroxysms of pain which came on at intervals. I however reached the office, although in great agony, but in the one treatment all pain left me, and from that day until my complete healing, which required several weeks, I was able to go about as usual.

I did not want to be a Christian Scientist, but only to be well, and I know now that this rebellion on my part delayed the healing. It was several years before I really began the earnest study of Christian Science. I was grateful for health and willingly paid the practitioner for her services, but some time elapsed before the real gratitude came. There was much resentment toward Mrs. Eddy to be overcome in my thought, and also in regard to church organization, but when I finally realized what Christian Science is, and the only kind of woman that could discover it, my healing was completed. I was then so grateful that I felt the only way to express my gratitude was to try to heal others, and this I have been able to do through my understanding of the truth, although constantly engaged in business.

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