Testimony of Healing January 1, 1921 Issue

Christian Science came to my attention about four years...

Mary Olive Priest

Christian Science came to my attention about four years ago, and answered all the questions I had ever asked about life. At that time my only sister had passed on, leaving me, as well as the rest of my family, in great sorrow, and with all my plans for the future upset. Christian Science has taught me that God's plan for His children is unalterable and that we need to come into accord with the divine plan, which always results in harmony.

With the help of a practitioner I have experienced many physical healings, including that of a cough of several years' standing, internal injuries resulting from a railroad accident, a constant sense of fatigue and weakness, and a tendency to have either the grip or a series of bad colds during the winter. The first demonstration I made for myself was the healing of an attack of neuralgia. I had just been reading the seventh and eighth chapters of Romans, and had gone out to sit on the porch in the cool of a fall evening, when I became conscious of the usual pain in the head and face, believed to be due to sitting where the north wind reached me. As I started to go into the house, I stopped and asked myself: "Why should I go in? If the words of Paul are true, that 'the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death," then I am certainly under no law that can condemn me to suffer pain because the north wind blows on my head." Immediately the pain ceased, and I stayed out the rest of the evening, without suffering any unpleasant result.

At another time I was instataneously healed of an acute attack of intestinal trouble through the realization of the truth. While very grateful for these healings, I am more thankful for the consciousness of God as not far off, but very near, and both able and willing to fulfill His promises to His children.

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