Testimony of Healing February 2, 1918 Issue

In the year 1906 some dear friends, knowing my need,...

H. DeVere Simmons

In the year 1906 some dear friends, knowing my need, talked to me a little about Christian Science, and finally invited me to attend a lecture. I did so, but although I listened and it sounded good, I was in agony; it seemed as though I could not wait for the end, I was in such a nervous state. I stayed, however, till the close, and for this I was very grateful, as my healing took place that very night. I had been under the doctor's care, and was taking local treatments for bowel trouble, from which I had suffered since childhood, and as I grew older it became worse. After returning home from the lecture my whole thought seemed changed; I felt different,—I felt there was a God I had never been taught about, a God who really did help people and would help me. The medicine which I always prepared so as to have it ready on my return, if I were going out in the evening, I swallowed as usual, but although it had never been distasteful, this time it seemed awful and I could not understand why. It was the last I ever took; I have taken no medicine in the past ten years.

Two years before this a copy of the Journal had been left in my home, but I did not like to have anyone see it, so I had tucked it away out of sight. The day after the lecture, that old Journal came to my mind, and I was not long in getting it. No longer did it seem a mystery. I could really understand it a little, and after I had read it from cover to cover, my friends loaned me a copy of the Christian Science textbook. Before I had finished reading it I was made "every whit whole," and my health has been good ever since. I can plainly see there is a right time for each and every one to come into the understanding of Christian Science. I am indeed grateful for this healing and for the many other demonstrations we have had. I am grateful that this teaching makes one want to be good and to do good.

Mrs. H. DeVere Simmons, Sante Fe, Isle of Pines, West Indies.

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