Testimony of Healing November 13, 1920 Issue

It is with heartfelt love and gratitude to God that this...

D. Violet Claire Le Messurier

It is with heartfelt love and gratitude to God that this testimony to the healing and saving power of Christian Science is written. Some years ago through two friends, Christian Scientists, whose changed condition and health compelled notice, I, in seeking healing for another, found my own. A practitioner was sought and her loving, true, and consecrated work enabled me to see the light. Within a few days after examination by a specialist I was quickly and permanently healed of an internal growth, for which an operation was pending. At another time influenza was overcome in a few hours. Christian Science has prolonged my life by healing a supposedly inherited weak heart. It is many years since either a drop of medicine has been used or a single day passed in bed, and through Christian Science I have been given a measure of health and strength otherwise impossible. Merely reading the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, cured me of the lifelong habit of nervously biting my nails.

Christian Science enabled me to start and support jointly a home and business for some years, on a small capital, although I had no knowledge at first of the means of livelihood selected. The truth has never failed to meet the need whether mental, physical, or financial. Everything I have to-day of life, health, home, and happiness is solely due to Christian Science. It has healed me of many faults of character, including a very hasty and quick temper, hatred, impurity, jealousy, resentment, selfishness, criticism, pride, fear, meanness, dishonesty, ingratitude, greed, and false appetite. In two instances of acute illness it healed me quickly, giving me a more abundant sense of life and strength each time. One could never express in words sufficient gratitude for such healings, and above all for the spiritual unfoldment of God as ever present Love, and the true understanding of the Bible, also for the satisfying answer the truth reveals to every true desire—prayer. Christian Science is the only real solution of the problems of daily life. It brings heaven to earth, here and now, and can be proved immediately whenever and wherever honestly applied and willingly obeyed.

Innumerable instances of healing could be quoted which have resulted from the church services, lectures, the study of all Mrs. Eddy's works in conjunction with the Bible, the Lesson-Sermons, and the authorized literature. For all the years of joyous life and activity and the glorious opportunity to help others, also for the privilege of membership in The Mother Church and the branch church to which I belong, I am deeply grateful. For all Christ Jesus did for the world's salvation, and for Mrs. Eddy's selfless life of love, for all The Mother Church activities, also for all the Christian Science literature, for the privilege of class instruction, and for all the true friends Christian Science has given me, I thank God. I have been enabled to join that ever growing multitude who can say, "I know that my redeemer liveth." (Miss) D. Violet Claire Le Messurier, London, England.

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