Testimony of Healing August 17, 1918 Issue

I accept the invitation of the editors of the Sentinel...

Sara G. Hackes

I accept the invitation of the editors of the Sentinel (June 15) who "invite the living witnesses to consider the opportunity of the hour." I am afraid I have been withholding the corn, and not receiving all the blessings which "shall be upon the head of him that selleth it." I am sending this testimony, knowing that it will reach the uttermost corners of the earth and bear fruit.

Twenty years ago I attended a testimony meeting at First Church of Christ, Scientist, of this city. I was in great need of physical and mental healing. Although I heard testimonies of healing of so-called incurable diseases, I said it was all humbug, that those people who testified had been hysterical and imagined they had these ailments, because if they had had them they never could have been healed.

Mrs. Eddy says in "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 11), "Sickness is the schoolmaster, leading you to Christ." It was indeed my schoolmaster, for it was leading me for twenty years, until man's extremity became God's opportunity. Fifteen years ago I went to Europe in search of health. I visited four countries, consulted the best physicians, tried everything that materia medica had to offer in the way of medicine and treatments of all kinds, but gradually grew worse. I thought that if I ever could return to the United States I would try Christian Science. When in Lausanne, Switzerland, in July, 1914, I was told that there was a Christian Science practitioner there. I at once asked to have her come to see me, which she did. At that time I was scarcely able to stand or to walk across the room. The practitioner gave me a treatment, and told me to come to see her in two days, which I did, although I had to walk a block to the tram and ride for half an hour. The practitioner gave me the Sentinel to read, but after looking through it I said it was all like Greek to me, that I did not understand the articles. She lovingly replied, "Never mind about the articles just now; read the testimonies." I devoured those testimonies, and all the time I was reading them I realized that there was no reason why I should not be healed. And so, I have been healed of brain exhustion; I could scarcely read or write. To show how complete has been my healing I will say that I have been doing translations and have worked from 8.45 a.m. to 5.15 p.m. every day without experiencing any sense of fatigue.