Testimony of Healing August 6, 1921 Issue

I came to Christian Science for healing, as I was suffering...

Clara E. Mills

I came to Christian Science for healing, as I was suffering from rheumatism in my feet and ankles. For years I had been a nurse and I knew that according to materia medica there was no real, permanent help for rheumatism, so when I felt it slowly creeping upon me I felt as though I were doomed. I thought in time it would take possession of my entire body, and in fancy I could see myself a helpless invalid with nothing to look forward to but death. I tried very little material help as I had no faith in it. Being a medical nurse I had never given Christian Science much thought, although I did not feel any special dislike for it, as I knew nothing whatever about it. By the time I had arrived at the stage where I depended on a cane or some friendly arm to support me, one of my friends was taken ill, and all through her illness everything that materia medica could do for her was done. She seemed to be rapidly nearing death. At last, in desperation, she called a Christian Science practitioner, and was instantly healed. Her healing made a great impression on me and as she kept pleading with me to try the same means for my own trouble, I at last yielded to her wishes and went with her to see a practitioner. From the very first I lost sight of the reason for my visit in the joy of hearing that God does not afflict His children, that He does not know evil, therefore it is not real. From that moment I knew that I had found the true God, whom I had been seeking all my life.

The healing was slow, but even for this I am very glad, for had it been instantaneous I might not have kept on studying. It was two years before the belief was destroyed, although I experienced a great many healings from other discordant conditions during that time. I walked three miles from my home to the church to attend a Wednesday evening meeting, and after the meeting, when I had reached the sidewalk in front of the church, it came to me that I had walked all that distance, sat all the evening, and that my feet and ankles were not stiff or painful in the least; in fact, I knew that I was free, that the bondage was entirely destroyed, and, in the words of Isaiah, I could "run, and not be weary . . . walk, and not faint." For this, and all other healings I am indeed grateful, but more than all is the knowledge that divine Love is always present with me and that in the degree I let God govern will there be peace and happiness.

(Mrs.) Clara E. Mills, Portland, Maine.

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