Testimony of Healing October 12, 1918 Issue

It will soon be four years since I first had Christian Science...

Eva Lycan

It will soon be four years since I first had Christian Science treatment. The doctors had failed to help me even temporarily and had at last said they could not cure me. I had absolutely no faith in Christian Science or anything else of a religious nature, though brought up in an orthodox church and in the strictest way. I was, however, induced by a relative to give it a trial and have every reason to be thankful that I did.

The ailments I was supposed to have were many, among them being heart trouble, appendicitis, abnormal growths, and various other ills; also my eyes were to sense in a very bad condition. I had worn glasses eighteen years, with no encouragement that my eyes would ever be any better; in fact, they were rapidly getting worse. The doctors had suggested operations, but these were not thought advisable on account of the heart trouble. My condition was therefore desperate when I took up Christian Science. The loving practitioner asked me to read the Lesson-Sermon each day, and I finally promised to do so, as I thought it only fair to follow instructions. In two days I was greatly relieved. Before long I got the books down one morning to read the Lesson and just then broke my glasses. As I had not seemed to gain any understanding from the reading, I was not at all interested in it; so my thought was that I would not have to read the Lesson that day, as I could not do so without my glasses; but behold, I found every word on page 486 of Science and Health very clear and plain. On that page I read: "Sight, hearing, all the spiritual senses of man, areeternal. They cannot be lost." I could hardly believe that I had actually read that without glasses, but I had, and I continued to read for hours. I have had no trouble with my eyes since.

The other ailments vanished one by one, and I am now free from them all. Many inharmonious conditions went out of my life also, and I can never put my gratitude for all this into words, because there are none that express enough. I thought at first that to be made well and strong physically was all I cared for, but the spiritual awakening is far above that. Now I am beginning to know God as He is, as Love, ever present and all-powerful. I can trust Him in all things and never worry; and what a relief that alone is! I know that wherever I am God is there to protect and care for me and mine. The sense of lack has been wonderfully overcome. I never have a real need that I am not able to supply, never a debt (except the great debt of gratitude to divine Love, which can never be paid), and that was the great trial of my life before—there were always debts and I had nothing to pay them with.

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