Testimony of Healing August 16, 1919 Issue

When I think of the innumerable blessings which I have...

Mary B. Redman

When I think of the innumerable blessings which I received in the seven years of my study of Christian Science, I hardly know where to begin to relate them. From my earliest recollections I had never known what it was to have health and strength, and there was hardly a spring that I escaped becoming so weak and emaciated that I could hardly get around. Many physicians had told me that I had anæmia. I felt as though I weighed several hundred pounds instead of less than a hundred. This heavy, done-out feeling extended to every part of my body; the tongue and jaws would become so tired that I would have to stop several times during a meal to rest them. This condition clung to me, and many others were added, during the years that followed; in fact, every organ of my body was seemingly involved except the lungs. These troubles together with others threw me into a terrible mental state. I had been in this mental condition three months when I heard of Christian Science, and I shall always feel that I was divinely led to it.

I went to a practitioner and took my first treatment in September, 1911. For over two months I was treated, with but slight improvement physically and with no change mentally; so I went to the lady one day intending to give it up, not that I doubted God's power to heal, or the testimonies that I had and read, but I kept thinking that owing to this mental condition God would not heal me. I have learned long since that this was a limiting thought and the very thing that kept me in bondage.

I had always been spiritually inclined, and joined a church in early youth, studied the Bible, and was able to make many of the promises mine; but when this sickness came upon me I could not concentrate my thought, nor exercise faith, and I got to the place where I felt that not one promise was for me. I felt that because of this state of thought God would not heal me; but the practitioner so uplifted my thought that I concluded to press on, and I left her home thinking that God was my Father and what He had done for others He could and would do for me and I would trust Him. It is needless to say that when I took a firm stand for God the healing came soon after. The spiritual uplift that came with it I could not find words to describe, but I can understand what Paul meant when he said, "I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun." It was as though I had been in a long dark tunnel and instantly came into the broad noonday sunshine. Since then I have been able to make many beautiful demonstrations and we have had many healings in our home. Ptomaine poisoning, erysipelas, malignant carbuncle, broken bone, injured finger, and other discordant conditions have been overcome.

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