Testimony of Healing July 30, 1921 Issue

It is many years since Christian Science was first presented...

Philma N. Shippy

It is many years since Christian Science was first presented to me and during that time I have had many proofs of its healing power as taught in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. The first reading convinced me that it is the truth as taught and demonstrated by Jesus and his disciples. I had been troubled for years with catarrh of the head, stomach trouble, and a cough from which I was seldom free, but as I studied the Christian Science literature along with the Bible, which had become a new book to me, these troubles disappeared.

My son had been subject to colds with high fever, often accompanied by biliousness. One night, after putting the children to bed I was reading the Lesson and could hear his constant coughing, and I thought, judging from past experiences, we would get very little sleep that night; then the thought came to me to apply the truths I was reading. I went to his room and talked to him of God's loving care and declared the truth as best I knew how, with the result that the coughing ceased and he slept well all night. One who was staying with us at the time remarked later how free he had been from colds, and he replied: "Well, I'm not afraid any more." He later told me how fearful he had been if he had got his feet wet or was caught out in a shower. Mrs. Eddy says on page 368 of Science and Health, "When fear disappears, the foundation of disease is gone." It was a great joy to me to know I could be of help to others.

A few weeks later my mother was instantaneously healed of neuralgia, also of an internal trouble which made it impossible for her to lie on either side, by my reading to her from Science and Health and the Bible and by applying the truth. When she was suffering with pneumonia and hemorrhages of the lungs, again these books were our only help and in three days she was completely healed and able to keep a dinner engagement, and she suffered no ill effects although we were having severe winter weather, our home being in northern Michigan at the time. When my brother was suffering with inflammation of the eyes and was confined to a dark room and unable to get any relief from doctors' medicines I persuaded him to come home with me and have Christian Science treatment. In one night he was healed, and was able to be out in the bright sunlight all of the next day. We have also had healings of poison oak, and one member of the family was healed of an enlarged toe joint which was very painful; there was no change of shoes as it was not convenient at the time. These and many other healings came to us with no other help than the Bible and the Christian Science literature.

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