Testimony of Healing August 10, 1918 Issue

One of the many things for which every Christian Scientist...

S. A. Moore

One of the many things for which every Christian Scientist is grateful, is the help which Christian Science is in overcoming fears and doubts of daily experience. Before I became interested in this teaching, the winter was frequently for me a season of coughs, colds, and throat troubles, sometimes of a seemingly severe nature. I feared these conditions, yet expected them; and they were often in evidence.

Five years ago, when I was almost a physical and mental wreck, a friend who had himself been healed of sunstroke through the power of Truth, induced me to look into Christian Science. Without any faith in it, and knowing nothing as to what it taught, yet willing to test anything that promised relief from the fear and torment with which I was afflicted, a practitioner was called and treatment requested. My healing was slow and at times I became discouraged; but with the help of advanced students and the earnest study of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and other writings by our Leader, together with a sincere desire to know and understand the truth, I have been gradually led out of the wilderness of many false beliefs and physical discords. Nervous prostration, the wearing of glasses, the tobacco habit in both its forms, a growth on the shoulder, and other minor conditions have slowly but surely succumbed to the light of Truth; and, best of all, a truer sense of love for God and my fellow man is being manifested.

In our home we have also had help for other members of my family, and Christian Science has never failed us when relied upon for relief. Many times before my healing was complete I anxiously listened in the Wednesday evening testimony meeting to hear some one tell of the overcoming of conditions similar to my own; and I feel sure that if every one who is trying to be a Christian Scientist could realize that his particular testimony may be the one which some one is waiting to hear, we would one and all resolve to overcome the error which tells us we have nothing to give at these meetings, and our Wednesday evening gathering would indeed be a feast of good things for both ourselves and the stranger within our gates.

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