Testimony of Healing March 19, 1921 Issue

With thanks to God and gratitude to our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy,...

Edna Patterson McClelland

With thanks to God and gratitude to our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, also to those who so lovingly brought Christian Science to me, I write this testimony. In the spring of 1917 I was a physical wreck, having suffered from bronchial asthma in an aggravated form for the greater part of a year. At the time I began treatment I was also suffering from pleurisy and pneumonia. In half an hour from the time I asked for treatment the pleurisy pain left and I was able to prepare dinner for my family, whereas up to that time I could not walk across the room. This was on a Saturday morning. After resting that night for the first time in two months, I decided on Sunday morning that I would like to go to the Christian Science services, not having attended before. I walked seventeen blocks to the church, returned and attended to my family of three small children, with no after effects, except for good. I repeated the walk in a drizzling rain the next day to purchase a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. The third day I made a journey of two hundred miles, with the children, without fatigue. Although the complete healing was slow, I was so grateful for this proof of God's care.

We were seemingly tried during the next year with every "ill that flesh is heir to" and had to overcome great fear. In that time double pneumonia and pneumonia swelling, scarlet fever, influenza, blood poisoning, and boils were beautifully overcome through the power of Truth and the loving help of a practitioner. Through all this we had only three present treatments. The birth of our last baby was a beautiful demonstration of the protection of divine Love. The child manifested only harmony, after having been pronounced abnormal in every way.

I am so grateful that I can say I am completely healed and that the healing has been permanent. I hope that this may help others as the testimonies in the Sentinel and Journal have helped me, both of which periodicals mean so much to us. We have also found that Christian Science is not only for mental and physical healing, but can be relied upon for every need. We found in the care of a small garden that we were blessed with an abundance. Although many discouraging remarks were made in regard to it, we held fast to the truth as stated by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health (p. 191), "By its own volition, not a blade of grass springs up, not a spray buds within the vale, not a leaf unfolds its fair outlines, not a flower starts from its cloistered cell." We knew that under divine protection neither flood nor drought could affect the growth. We also overcame destruction by insects, through the truth.