Testimony of Healing May 4, 1918 Issue

I am very grateful for all that Christian Science has done...

Bessie M. Scovill

I am very grateful for all that Christian Science has done for me. It has healed me of stomach and bowel trouble which had held me in bondage from babyhood. Throughout my childhood and girlhood I never knew what it was to feel well and happy. At the time of my coming to Christian Science I was very much discouraged; all material means had failed even to relieve me, and physicians promised me anything but a bright future. It may seem a little strange, but the only cases of healing of which I knew personally, were those of three people who had been instantaneously healed of troubles which are not considered trivial in the medical world, so I thought that all I had to do was to take a treatment and be well; but I soon found such was not to be my experience, for it was nine months before the healing was complete. One day while having treatment I suddenly became conscious of the fact that I was well, and for five years after that my health was perfect.

Later, while passing through a rather trying experience, I found it necessary to ask for help, and in a few days I was perfectly free. Shortly after this I began to go through a testing time, and there followed a year of great mental depression. I was very unhappy, though there was no reason for my being so. I earnestly tried to keep up my study of Christian Science, but seemed to be wandering in darkness. I do not know how I could have endured the mental distress if I had not had much loving help from a friend who is a practitioner. Through her many helpful talks and an occasional treatment, I was protected from erroneous thinking to a great extent.

After a time I was separated from this friend, but even before that an alarming physical condition began to manifest itself, and as I am the mother of three little ones, the fear of death became very strong. Both my husband and I felt that my condition was serious, so I wrote for absent treatment, and in a little less than three weeks the trouble vanished. I soon began to discover that during this time of trial, in many ways I had become a new creature. A great many fears regarding disease had disappeared, I was happier than ever before, and I became conscious of a feeling of peace and security hitherto unknown.

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