Testimony of Healing May 21, 1921 Issue

I had been a daily Bible student for years, and taught a...

ADA WHITING HARING

I had been a daily Bible student for years, and taught a large class of girls in a denominational Sunday school, but it was not until I found "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, that I received daily bread for daily needs. I was ever a seeker for Truth and when endeavoring to explain to my Sunday school class the so-called miracles of Christ Jesus and his healing work, I was puzzled and unable to understand why no one was able to do the same works and even "greater works" which Jesus so plainly stated that those who believed on him should do.

For ten years I had been a constant sufferer from headache and nervous exhaustion, which at times seemed unendurable. Finally I spent several hours in bed each day, and was planning, when my daughter graduated from college, to spend all of the time in bed, as it was such a painful effort for me to hold my head up unsupported. It was at this point, when doctors could offer no relief, that I borrowed from a friend a copy of Science and Health and read it, together with my Bible, while I lay in bed for two weeks. I compared all familiar quotations with the Bible. At the end of two weeks, when I had finished reading Science and Health I realized that I was well. As Paul writes, I was transformed by the renewing of my mind. This was in the spring, and during the summer I gained twenty pounds in weight. The healing was complete and permanent and I am indeed a new creature. "Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

I wonder if we realize the help there is, for every time of need, in the daily study of the Christian Science Bible Lessons. I am sure that I never fully realized this until one day when my need was very great. It was the day of an explosion at a munition plant, the month previous to the signing of the armistice. During the evening, we had been hearing these explosions and much fear was manifested as to the cause. At night when awakened by the noise of repeated explosions I kept repeating the following verses from the ninety-first psalm: "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day." "There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." Mrs. Eddy says, on page 298 of Science and Health, "Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love, no matter what their individualism may be," and on page 567 she says: "These angels deliver us from the depths. Truth and Love come nearer in the hour of woe, when strong faith or spiritual strength wrestles and prevails through the understanding of God."

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