Testimony of Healing February 28, 1920 Issue

So much good has come to me since beginning the study...

Hilda Anderson

So much good has come to me since beginning the study of Christian Science that I wish to acknowledge through the Sentinel some of the blessings received. It is now nearly fourteen years since I first felt its beneficent influence. During much of this time I have had many doubts and fears and many struggles, and if it had not been for the help received from my Scientist friends I do not believe I should be here to-day.

I had never known a well and happy day before turning to Christian Science. Sick headaches and bowel disorder had troubled me since childhood. About fifteen years ago I had an operation for chronic appendicitis. The doctor assured us that if I survived the operation all my former troubles would disappear, but they did not; neither did change of climate help me much, if any. While in the West, however, I found Christian Science and was helped by reading Science and Health. The first Wednesday evening meeting was a revelation to me. I drank in so much of the truth and was so assured of God's loving-kindness to mankind that for almost a year sickness was a stranger to me. Then I began to drift. My relatives and friends knew nothing of this religion and thought themselves opposed to its teaching. I began to wonder if they were right and whether my health would have been regained if Christian Science had not come into my life. I know now that it would not. The former ailments all returned in more aggravated form and many other ills were added. Doctors frankly told me medicine could only relieve me for a time. I tried to read the Science literature but could not help myself as at first, so asked for Christian Science treatment and was again healed.

We have been on a farm here in the South for seven years and away from Scientists, and I again thought I would have to give up—that Christian Science could not help one so far from church or friends. It took me four years to learn that I was once more mistaken. I was very miserable—my left arm was almost useless; but I knew that if God could not heal me there was no help for me, and began to ask more earnestly for guidance from above. For myself I did not care so much but I wanted to live for the sake of my little daughter, then only seven years of age. For about three years now I have been wonderfully blessed with health and strength. If this testimony will help another wanderer to know that God truly is our refuge and strength and "a very present help in trouble," I shall be very glad.

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