Testimony of Healing January 29, 1921 Issue

The testimonies have helped me so often that I wish...

Florence E. Hancock

The testimonies have helped me so often that I wish to express my gratitude through the periodicals, hoping it may likewise help others. Christian Science came to me not through need for physical healing nor a desire for spiritual comfort, but just because the time was right. A friend came to me one day with a roll of copies of the Sentinel. Tossing some into my lap she said, "Here is something good for you to read. I am going to read them, too." We both read, and almost at once I was deeply interested. I had never cared for church and used to joke about religious things, but in one half hour's reading everything was changed.

That was six and one-half years ago and in that time I have had many opportunities to prove that God's law is operative here and now. From the time I was a little child I was sickly and my worst enemies seemed to be colds on my lungs, tonsillitis, and constipation. My first healing, of tonsillitis, was almost instantaneous. Once or twice since then I have had that enemy to overcome, but it was a feeble enemy and quickly destroyed. Constipation yielded very soon and has never recurred. A sprained ankle was overcome in a few hours and a ligament which had been torn from the breastbone was perfectly healed in less than a week's time, and I did not give up my work during that period. A great sense of fear, especially of fire, has left me through the new understanding of the ninety-first psalm. My little one-year-old daughter has never been ill and has never tasted medicine.

While there have been several physical healings, still Science has been more preventive than curative in my case. To me, who formerly had been delicate and sickly all the time, this is as wonderful as great demonstrations of healing. At the time of my father's passing away, I was greatly sustained by the understanding that there is no separation. Greatest of all benefits is the change in my thought about God and Church, that came with the spiritual awakening in my first hour of reading. I had never had any desire to join a church, in fact laughed at the idea, but I am very happy now to be a member of The Mother Church.

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