Testimony of Healing February 7, 1920 Issue

Nothing but living so as to be what I know God intended...

Dorothy Rybolt

Nothing but living so as to be what I know God intended us to be can ever express my gratitude for Christian Science. I am especially grateful for our literature, for it was through the Sentinel that God's beautiful message of health came to me nearly six years ago.

Day after day my strength was gradually slipping away, owing to what the physicians term inflammation of the heart covering, and my right leg was slowly becoming shorter and shorter, compelling me to walk on crutches. My mother would walk with me across the room and half carry me back again in an effort to force life and strength into my body. Through all of this I seemed to hear the voice of Truth assuring me in the words of a Sunday school song that God would take care of me. These beautiful words of the song seemed never to leave me, and I had untiring faith in them. Finally, when all material remedies had failed, I learned through a friend that God never intended His children to be sick, and that there was no reason why I should not enjoy the health divinely bestowed upon man. I had no copy of Science and Health, only a few Sentinels, but I began reading them and read little else for two weeks. Toward the end of the second week my strength had been greatly restored and I was again learning to walk the natural way, without the use of crutches. At the end of the second week I walked sixteen squares without a bit of weakness or pain of any kind. At present I am holding a position, and although I stand all day I experience freedom.

The beautiful words of one of our hymns have certainly been proved, "And man does stand as God's own child."

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