Testimony of Healing February 26, 1921 Issue

In April, 1889, I was healed through Christian Science...

Anna Pope Simmons

In April, 1889, I was healed through Christian Science treatment of an internal trouble of years' standing. In June, 1890, we passed unharmed through a cyclone. This protection was most wonderful, but most natural when one has some understanding of the operation of Christian Science. I did not know that anything more than an ordinary storm was taking place, but I took "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and sat down, the four children gathering about me. My husband proposed going to the cellar, but I said, "No, we will ascend in thought," and we were protected, although the town, except our house and a few close around us, was razed to the ground. The following Sunday ten carloads of people came from Lincoln and Omaha and other towns on the way to see the scene of destruction, and among them was my brother, not a Christian Scientist, who said that I was the only one he saw who did not look as though I had been sick. This was due to my clinging to the truth I had learned from Science and Health.

During the next few years two little girls were born to us. I depended entirely upon Christian Science and suffered very little pain with either birth. Since then all the troubles that have come to us have been overcome through our understanding of Christian Science, and I have been able to help others many times.

I am grateful for the healing in some degree of self-pity and of dependence upon what others think. I now see that the only true independence is in knowing what God thinks or knows, and thinking likewise. I am grateful for The Christian Science Journal, Sentinel, and Monitor, which have been marked influences in helping me to think rightly. I love to ponder with gratitude the joy of Mrs. Eddy as she stood alone with God in her endeavor, and the vision of what her work meant to sustain her. I love to know her more and more through her writings. She has enabled us to make the promises of the Bible ours by showing us that they were given for all time. I surely worshiped truly for the first time (though a member of a church many years) when I learned that God is good and could not give anything but good to His children.

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