Testimony of Healing November 13, 1920 Issue

In gratitude for the wonderful help received through...

Ethelyn I. Bronson

In gratitude for the wonderful help received through Christian Science I would like to tell of a physical healing which I experienced a few years ago. It was a case of blood poisoning, believed to have resulted from contact with what is commonly known as poison oak. I was serving on the flower committee of the church of which I was a member at the time, and it was my duty to see that flowers and foliage were provided each Sunday for the foyer of the church. Many times I gathered them myself, as I was then living where I was surrounded by everything beautiful that nature provides, and I often took long rambles through the woods in search of flowers for my work. This disease first manifested itself upon my hands and arms in a very pronounced form and they were soon badly swollen and discolored. I immediately asked for help from a Christian Science practitioner and the work was at once taken up. All pain was soon destroyed, but the swelling and discoloration seemed very persistent and soon manifested itself on my face. This condition, however, was soon overcome.

On the following Sunday it seemed best to ask some one to relieve me of my work in looking after the flowers; the sense of fear was not entirely destroyed. I reached the church a little early that morning and immediately went to the little room provided for arranging the flowers and there found a most beautiful bunch of flowers and autumn leaves, most of them being oak leaves, but there was no one to look after them. I hesitated just a moment and wondered what I should do, as they seemed too beautiful to leave. Almost instantly a quotation from Science and Health came to my thought. I hastily removed my gloves, all sense of fear absolutely gone, realizing all the while that there was nothing in those beautiful leaves that could possibly harm me, and I soon had them in their proper places. As I went upstairs and listened to the beautiful service that morning I was filled with gratitude for the understanding of this wonderful truth that meets every human need and frees mankind. Since that time I have handled all kinds of wild flowers and leaves with no sense of fear whatever, and have never had any return of this trouble. I am truly grateful for this experience as I realized that it was just another opportunity to prove the omnipotence and omnipresence of God and the protecting power of divine Love.

I wish to express my gratitude for all the blessings received through the knowledge of the all-power and infinite love of God as taught in Christian Science, and I am grateful for the privilege of class instruction. I am also grateful for all of our periodicals, which continually cheer and encourage us, and for our Lesson-Sermons each week, and it is my aim and earnest desire to strive to live daily my gratitude for Christian Science by reflecting and radiating more love, and to become a clearer channel for good. I am thankful to God and grateful to His messenger, Mary Baker Eddy, who has revealed to mankind this demonstrable truth.

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