Testimony of Healing September 18, 1920 Issue

Christian Science was first brought to my notice some...

Nancy J. Herring

Christian Science was first brought to my notice some fifteen years ago by one of my neighbors. She had come in to see me and told me of a lady who was taking treatment at that time, and I remember I said to her that if it was faith in God, I would think it all right; if otherwise, I could not accept it. So as time went on, one after another came in to call on me,—for I was then in bed and had been for nearly eight years, with spinal trouble, also a complication of other diseases,—and would ask, "Why do you not try Christian Science?"

I finally decided to try it, as we had about exhausted all material means. We sent for a Christian Scientist. She came and talked with me, and said on going away that she would do what she could for me, and that I might be up before she came back again. I believed she intended coming again in a few weeks, as she did not live in the city. I remember how I looked at her when she said to me that I might be up before she came back, I suppose feeling that such a thing could not be, as I had been in bed so long and had tried so many times to be up and could not. I had to be carried out after dressing myself, or taken out in a chair for a while, perhaps half an hour or so, and then had to lie down again. What dark hours those were. I cannot state just the exact length of time it was from the beginning of the treatments until I was healed, but I do know that it was before the practitioner made her second visit, for before she came the next time I had made the effort to arise and walk and I was healed immediately. I was up, clothed, and in my right mind.

Oh, what a blessing, and such a spiritual uplifting came with the healing. My healing has been tested again and again in ways which I formerly never dared think of, and its permanency has been repeatedly proved, and as the work of healing, physical and moral, goes on day by day my debt of gratitude to our Leader grows. This debt can be paid in but one way, by loving obedience, remembering the Master's words, "If ye love me, keep my commandments."

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