Testimony of Healing November 13, 1920 Issue

Words seem inadequate to express my gratitude for what...

Grace S. Houghtaling

Words seem inadequate to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done and is doing for me, and only by living its teaching can I prove that gratitude. Over six and one-half years ago I turned to Christian Science and the first treatment resulted in an instantaneous healing of appendicitis and gallstones, after I had been under the doctor's care for three months preparing for an operation. I was in the hospital all ready for the operation, but the physician postponed it on account of complications that might arise, as I had been under treatment for years for acute Bright's disease. This healing was indeed a revelation to me and I was most joyful as first one condition after another righted itself under this new understanding of God and man's relation to Him. A discordant condition of the knees, which had been a drawback since I was a girl, has been met, also headaches have been overcome, glasses have been laid aside, and there have been many, many other healings. These seem small, however, compared with the spiritual uplift and the joy of having overcome, in a marked degree, self-pity, with which I had had a struggle for over two years. This has been the real healing and words cannot express the joy I feel.

I have the privilege of being a member of The Mother Church, also an active member of a branch church, and my prayer is that I may gain a greater understanding of the truth. I am grateful to God, the giver of all good, to Christ Jesus the Way-shower, and to our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who gave to hungering humanity this wonderful truth which to-day is awakening the world to its rightful heritage. Of her works we can but repeat a verse of one of our hymns:—

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