Testimony of Healing November 26, 1921 Issue

Beginning on page 27 of "Retrospection and Introspection"...

Emilie K. Hill

Beginning on page 27 of "Retrospection and Introspection" our inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says: "The divine hand led me into a new world of light and Life, a fresh universe—old to God, but new to His little one.' Itbecame evident that the divine Mind alone must answer, and be found as the Life, or Principle, of all being; and that one must acquaint himself with God, if he would be at peace. He must be ours practically, guiding our every thought and action; else we cannot understand the omnipresence of good sufficiently to demonstrate, even in part, the Science of the perfect Mind and divine healing." Since coming into a knowledge of God through Christian Science several years ago I have experienced many and varied healings of physical ailments, such as chronic and most severe bronchitis, indigestion, and kindred ills. My husband and I were healed in two days of Spanish influenza during the epidemic, and I have twice seen fever dissipated for my small daughter, once through the aid of a loving practitioner miles away and once through our reading of the textbook and through gratitude for our small knowledge of the truth that heals. But I find Christian Science so altogether available that I make use of this wonderful source of help wherever and whenever I seem to need help,—from my kitchen, where burns and cuts no longer have power to hurt me, even to providing a home under seemingly impossible conditions.

Some time ago my husband made a change in his business relations, which necessitated our moving to a small town where housing conditions seemed very difficult. This move was in the first place the result of dependence upon divine Principle, so I knew Love would also provide us with a home. I waited one month before joining my husband, but as the way did not seem to open, I decided I must have the courage of Abraham and get me out of my country and from my kindred unto a land that He would show me, trusting always to Principle to provide a place for us; knowing, in fact, that a place was already provided, and that all I had to do was to be so clear a reflection of the divine Mind that I would recognize the home when I saw it.

Upon arriving, we took up our abode in the one small room which my husband had been occupying before our coming. It was small indeed, but sunny, cheerful, and very clean. Our attempts at house hunting revealed to us that even light housekeeping rooms were not to be had, furnished or unfurnished, but somehow I knew that the night is always darkest just before the dawn, so, returning to our room, I set to work with my books, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and its Concordance, and the rest of Mrs. Eddy's writings and their Concordance. I made an exhaustive search for all the passages pertaining to "home" and tried to realize God's loving care. One passage from Science and Health (p. 254) kept recurring to me all through the study, "Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven; stranger, thou art the guest of God." A sense of peace and rest began to envelop me and I knew that the work was finished, that somehow God would point the way so clearly I could not fail to see it.

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