Testimony of Healing November 6, 1920 Issue

I have long felt that it was my duty to testify to the...

Leona Tognazzini

I have long felt that it was my duty to testify to the blessings that have come into my life through the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Four years ago my husband was told by a physician that he would pass on soon if he did not have an operation performed, and when I asked the physician if the operation would heal him he replied, "He cannot live the way he is, and he stands a chance if he goes to the hospital." About this time a friend told me of several cases of healing through Christian Science and gave me some copies of the Sentinel to read. We were quite skeptical at first but after reading the testimonies we decided to borrow a copy of Science and Health from the library. It proved so interesting to us that we read it constantly, and in a few days I was able to do away with a remedy that I had used daily for several years for bowel trouble, and I have never needed it since. After that proof of the healing power of divine Love, I destroyed all the medicine and medical books in the house, and neither we nor our children have used any material remedies since.

An account of our healings, moral, physical, and financial, would fill a good sized book but I should like to mention a few for which I am most grateful. By realizing the truth of the "scientific statement of being" (Science and Health, p. 468), I was instantly healed of a severe pain in my lungs, which I had had medical treatments for in vain before taking up Christian Science.

Not long ago my two-year-old baby became suddenly ill with very high fever. I was very fearful as there was no practitioner near and we had no telephone, but the thought came to me that God is near me and I have only to realize His presence. Then I gladly thought, "He is not mine, Father, but Thine, and I know he is safe," and immediately the fever left the child and he was well. We were led to rent land and start farming this year, with the promise of financial help to get the necessary tools and horses. We later found that we could not accept the help under the conditions imposed and we had to learn that "vain is the help of man." At first we were quite discouraged and thought we would have to give up our plans. As soon as we realized that God is the giver of all good, and saw clearly that He is the only source of supply, that His children can lack nothing, we were offered from an unexpected source all the money we needed to go ahead with, without asking for it.

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