Testimony of Healing August 16, 1919 Issue

I wish I could express in words how really grateful I am...

Ada Coates

I wish I could express in words how really grateful I am to God for Christian Science. For nearly two years I had suffered from a severe internal trouble at frequent intervals. A doctor treated me, but I got worse instead of better, and at last he said he could do nothing for me unless I would give up and rest. Just at this time a friend proposed that I should try Christian Science, and being tired of pain and doctors I went to a practitioner and had treatment. In three days I was perfectly healed.

Although very grateful for the physical healing I am far more grateful for the mental healing that came with it. For nearly two years I had held the bitter thought that God had taken our baby, our only child, and yet I could not reconcile that thought with the thought of a God of love. Through reading Science and Health I gained a truer concept of God and was freed from this sense of bitterness. Since then joy and harmony have filled my life. Is it any wonder that I can find no words to express my gratitude for Christian Science? My husband, who was very grateful for my healing, took up the study of Christian Science and was healed of a skin disease within a week. He had been troubled with it at times for years. We are indeed very grateful for the protecting power of Love that kept him from harm while at the front during the war.

Recently I was running across the road to catch a tramcar, when I saw a large motor car almost upon me. I slipped and fell, but as I did so realized at once the protecting power of God, good. Although the wheels over my body, I knew no harm could come to a child of God. I at once asked for a Christian Science practitioner, and with assistance got up and walked to the side of the road. The policeman was very anxious to get me off at once to the hospital, declaring there must be broken bones or internal injuries, and a doctor kindly offered his services, but I assured them that I did not need medical attendance; that I was all right, except for a few cuts and bruises and my back feeling weak. I said also that I was a Christian Scientist and was expecting a practitioner. The policeman again tried to get me off to the hospital, saying that I might be hurt far more than I thought, but when I told him that if the practitioner consdiered it necessary for me to go to a hospital I would go, he was willing to let her take the responsibility.

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