Testimony of Healing February 5, 1921 Issue

I have been studying Christian Science about fourteen...

Amelia J. Harbin

I have been studying Christian Science about fourteen years and feel I should no longer delay sending in my testimony. I was led to this study by the wonderful healing of two nieces. I had ridiculed it,—or rather, my conception of it,—but had not studied it very long before I was fully convinced it is the pure religion taught, practiced, and demonstrated by Jesus Christ, and later recognized it as the "Comforter" or "Holy Ghost" which he said the Father would send in his name.

I had always loved to read the Bible, and studied it for very many years, but much of it I could not understand until I got Mrs. Eddy's spiritual interpretation of it through "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which has illumined it for me—especially that wonderful eighth chapter of Romans. Critics say Christian Science does not agree with the Bible. To me they agree perfectly, and since taking up the study I have never doubted for an instant that Mrs. Eddy was divinely inspired to give this truth to the world.

My first healing was of bladder trouble of over thirty years' duration. One treatment overcame all pain, and cured minor ills at the same time. Later I fractured a rib, which was healed by two absent treatments. I had two falls on basement stairs—one on my back, hurting my spine, the other by falling forward on a stone step, which resulted in two abrasions of the skin, but my declaration of the truth healed both at once. I accidentally poured boiling water over my arm, from above the elbow to the finger tips; it stung as it touched the skin, but it did not even turn it pink, and pain was overcome instantly. Before coming into Science I suffered many years from cracks in my fingers, losing some of the nails. I was treated by several physicians, and spent some time at a health resort, getting only temporary relief. A Christian Scientist friend, a practitioner, called one day and I showed her my fingers, that were badly cracked and very painful, and asked for help. In two days they were perfectly healed. Nearly ten years ago I fell headlong down a stairway and broke two bones of my leg several inches above the ankle. My relatives being opposed to Christian Science, surgeons were called to put on a plaster cast and I was taken to my daughter's home, where I remained for fourteen weeks. I did not suffer pain, but could not stand an instant on my feet without using two crutches. I then called in a Christian Science practitioner, and after one treatment I was able to walk around the room, and three days afterwards went to my own home and began house cleaning.

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