Testimony of Healing November 20, 1920 Issue

Brought up and educated in the home of grandparents,...

Pearl P. N. Babcock

Brought up and educated in the home of grandparents, where one member was a well-known practicing physician, another a nurse, and two daughters were well versed in the medical practice, I developed into a very fearful and sensitive child with a vivid imagination. My early religious training was such that I grew to hate the ever wrathful God I had been taught to worship, and to love those humanly near and dear to me more than ever. Having lost two brothers as the result of tubercular trouble, I nourished the fear of that disease until it became a hideous nightmare in my waking hours and later manifested itself in enlarged glands, a cough, and morbidity, reaching a climax with the desire to do away with myself. In that condition I turned to Christian Science, between ten and eleven years ago, for healing. The way out was not an easy one, but I pressed on, knowing that this teaching is of God, and gradually I am being drawn farther away from personality and closer to Principle.

Shortly after I began to study "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" a skin disease broke out and covered my body, only my hands and face being free. Finally, fearing it would spread to my face and that my family would want me to have medical treatment I went to a Christian Science practitioner, who treated me for about two weeks, at the end of which time I was healed, and the healing has been permanent. Headaches from which I suffered for a long period also disappeared. A year later help was needed for chronic constipation and hemorrhoids. Absent treatment was asked for and in one week I was healed.

Later on I had two hemorrhages and again asked for treatment. About an hour after calling the practitioner I arose from my bed, dressed, and went to my aunt's home for dinner, a distance of two miles, with no ill effects. I realize now that all this discord was due to what Mrs. Eddy terms chemicalization,—error coming to the surface to be destroyed by Truth. I was so full of fear, hate, and resentment that it is little wonder that later on I was taken with severe pains in the bowels and intestines and was unable to leave my bed. I cried out in agony to one very near to me to go and call a practitioner, but she at first refused to leave me, fearing as she afterwards told me, that my end was near. Finally she carried out my instructions, and the following day I was up, and went downstairs.

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