Testimony of Healing April 3, 1920 Issue

During the so-called epidemic a member of my family,...

Mary Ruete

During the so-called epidemic a member of my family, who was not a Scientist, seemed to manifest influenza. I believed that I did not have any fear of the disease for myself, but somehow it suggested itself to me on account of the condition of my relative. Within less than a day I had a severe attack of this sickness and seemed much worse than my relative. With two treatments I was healed. I am grateful for this experience, because it served to set forth the truth of this statement, beginning on page 391 of Science and Health: "Fear is the fountain of sickness, and you master fear and sin through divine Mind; hence it is through divine Mind that you overcome disease." I have also been healed of chronic bowel trouble and nasal catarrh through reading the textbook.

Permit me to take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude for the splendid healing my mother has experienced. She had a severe attack of paralysis and for several months was unable to walk. This was healed under very trying circumstances. At this time we experienced a great financial loss and also suffered from limitation and want; but I am indeed grateful to state that where there was once a scanty supply, to-day there is a bountiful supply.

For a number of years before becoming interested in Christian Science I was a devout student of the Bible and a member of a denominational church. I attended three classes for instruction in Bible history and thought I knew God. When trials and tribulations came I could not prove that "God is . . . a very present help in trouble." After battling with what I know now were false beliefs I came to the conclusion that there was not any God. For one week I held this thought, and while it may seem to be a brief period, it was the most awful week that I have ever lived through. Now I know that I had only lost my false concept of God. Through the love reflected by the practitioner who helped my mother, I was lifted out of this "chaos and old night" to begin to realize that "God is Love." I am grateful for these experiences; Christian Science has done much for me, and words are indeed inadequate to tell how grateful I am for its teachings. It is, as Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 127), "the Comforter which leadeth into all truth." I trust that I may be ever mindful of the debt of gratitude I owe to Christian Science and to our dear Leader.

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