Testimony of Healing February 12, 1921 Issue

It has been almost four years since I commenced to study...

Blanche Lowe

It has been almost four years since I commenced to study Christian Science. My entire outlook on life has been changed. My first healing was experienced at the time of the birth of my little son, when no severe pain was experienced. The healing was a revelation to me. From that time on my great desire has been to gain an understanding of this truth that frees from sickness as well as sin.

My little daughter was healed just recently of a number of warts. One day while looking at her hand, which was almost covered with them, the thought came to me, "Now is the time to prove your understanding of Christian Science." I at once read the Lesson-Sermon from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy, and the truth came to me so clearly that God's child is perfect now, and it is impossible to add anything to God's perfect creation. In the first chapter of Genesis we read: "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." The healing followed.

Both the children and myself were healed of an annoying skin disease. This was a very slow healing, but in the meantime a great deal of error was uncovered and destroyed. Words cannot express my gratitude for the understanding that has come to me in the last few months. We have been living in a place where there are no Scientists, consequently I have been compelled to study the more earnestly and to apply all the understanding I have. The beliefs of separation, discouragement, and discontent have been almost entirely overcome by knowing that God, good, is present everywhere and that He is no respecter of places. It has been proved to me very clearly that, in the words of one of our hymns (No. 241), "earth has no sorrow but Love can remove."—

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