Testimony of Healing April 17, 1920 Issue

I have had so much help and comfort since coming into...

Eunice Fleming

I have had so much help and comfort since coming into Christian Science that I feel it a duty to tell of it. This beautiful truth was brought to me three years ago by a young man who knew very little about it. He came to my door in answer to an advertisement of a room to rent. After he had been here a few days, as I was very nervous and worried with many troubles, he asked me if I would allow his mother to write to me as he knew she could help me. I consented and she asked me to get "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and gave me the Lesson-Sermons to read. In about a week I left off glasses, which I had worn for fifteen years. She had been an infidel when this boy lived at home and he had never been inside of any church in his life and knew only what his mother had written him about Christian Science but he had enough love in his heart to ask her to help me. He attended a lecture with me and was healed of smoking and profanity and then became a student of the Christian Science textbook and the Bible.

When my own son was leaving home for college I thought that so many young men begin to smoke, drink, and do other shameful things after they leave home, and I was afraid my son would learn those things. Then the mother, who had helped me so much, wrote to me that when her son was away she had seen him as God's child and knew God would be with him in every place. Then as I thought of what God had done for this young man I knew He would also guide and protect my son. From that day I have known him as God's child, and he contracted none of the habits which I had feared, but studied his Bible and attended Christian Science lectures. He seemed to be broad-minded and always stood very high in his examinations.

When the war call came he volunteered to go to Canada and help out with the wheat harvest. While there he wrote to me that the mosquitoes were so fearful he could have no comfort; they were so abundant and large that they were like clouds of smoke. I realized that God gave man dominion over all the earth and he, as God's child, could not be tormented by that pestilence,—and the mosquitoes all left his habitation. Later when he was studying navigation with the Navy and was on a boat loaded with iron ore, I was awakened one night with the clear understanding that he was in distress and needed my help, but I realized at once that "underneath are the everlasting arms," and God controls the wind and the waves, and since he was God's child what could I fear as there is no place where Love is not. I went peacefully to sleep, and a week later when he was home for a day, he said he was never seasick but once. At midnight a week before, he was standing on watch in an electric storm and began to feel very ill and was going to call for help, when suddenly he found he was not sick any more.

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