Testimony of Healing August 27, 1921 Issue

In the forty-second chapter of Isaiah we read: "I will...

Henrietta Alston Kenan

In the forty-second chapter of Isaiah we read: "I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them." This is what Christian Science has done for me from the very moment I first sought a practitioner for physical healing. I could tell of many healings and of much that has been overcome in ridding my thoughts of things that claimed to be a part of myself, but I want particularly to express my gratitude for the knowledge of God as Love, and always at hand to aid us in every difficulty.

During the war I lived in an apartment with a lady who was having medical treatment for the same physical disorder that brought me into Christian Science. At this time I had been a student of Christian Science for only a few months and as the memory of the suffering had not been completely erased I feared that I might again come down with the disease, and did not at that time know how to protect my thought. One night after letting the physician out of the apartment, I went to my room so filled with fear that I started to call for help and then decided that I would seek the help which was right at hand, for I knew that God's help was just as available to me. I picked up my Bible and offered up an earnest prayer to be guided in what to read to heal me of the fear of making a reality of that inharmonious condition. I opened to the fifth chapter of Galatians, and my eyes fell upon the first verse: "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." As I am the daughter of a physician the word "bondage" meant much to me, and no one but those who have had a similar experience can understand the joy, assurance, comfort, and calmness with which I closed my Bible and made my preparations for bed, knowing that all I had to do was to "stand fast." My need was met.

I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church, and in a branch church, for class instruction, and for what our Leader has done and is doing for the world through her writings, which have thrown such a wonderful light on the teachings of the Bible and have made the power of the Christ, Truth, available to us here and now in the degree that we abide in Him. For the periodicals I could never say enough as they have been a source of great comfort to me during the years that I have been studying Christian Science. The lectures, the reading rooms, the practitioners, and the daily Bible-Lesson are more to me than words can express. My heart is filled with love and grateful appreciation for all that Mrs. Eddy has done for me in showing me the way out of this material wilderness.—(Miss) Henrietta Alston Kenan, Washington, District of Columbia.

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