Testimony of Healing November 10, 1917 Issue

My gratitude goes out to God for Christian Science, and...

L. A. B. Frost

My gratitude goes out to God for Christian Science, and I would show it by trying to demonstrate it in my life. For twenty years I had been delicate and was continually ailing. About three years ago relatives in England sent me some copies of the Sentinel, and later a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. I thought Christian Science some new fad, so did not read the papers, though after a while I began to read Science and Health, not because I expected healing from it, but because this seemed to be the only return I could make for the kindness of those who had sent it.

I was not a member of any church and had no wish to be, for I could not reconcile the teachings of the churches with a God who is Love, nor with a loving Christ Jesus who had compassion on all suffering. I had been told that another operation—I had already undergone one—might free me from the chief trouble, but there was the chance that it might not. I rebelled bitterly on being told that God had sent this to me for some good purpose of His own, but never lost faith in God or in the Bible, although unable to understand how its teachings were to be made practical. After reading Science and Health about an hour every day for a week, however, I realized that the pain which had been almost constant had ceased. A bowel disorder for which almost all known remedies had been tried without success, also a delicate throat from which I had suffered all my life, were cured instantaneously; but I did not tell anyone for a fortnight, as I could not realize it myself.

Other ailments disappeared one after another. I suffered from a structural defect of the eyes, also from the effects of wrong treatment by a doctor several years before,—one eye having been almost blinded. I had to wear glasses for reading and other work, and dark glasses in the sun. With the healing of the other ailments by Christian Science, all medicines had been put away, but more than a month passed before it dawned on me that I did not need to wear glasses. The print of my Bible was so small that even with glasses it had always been necessary for me to be in a very good light in order to read, but after laying them aside I was able to read perfectly well.

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