Testimony of Healing October 6, 1923 Issue

Words cannot depict fully the deep sense of gratitude...

Minnie M. Hill

Words cannot depict fully the deep sense of gratitude I feel for all the benefits God has rendered toward me during the past twelve years, and since the study and application of the teachings of Christian Science were taken up. Nearly every summer previously, for a period extending over twenty years, a most agonizing, persistent eruptive condition, variously diagnosed by reputable physicians and specialists as a severe type of eczema, effects of poison oak, and so on, would manifest itself upon the body, continuing for weeks at a time,—often months,—and necessitating confinement indoors. After a long and faithful trial of material means, I was thoroughly convinced that this disease, and a severe form of bowel trouble I was suffering from at the time, could not be healed by material means, though I was appreciative of all the efforts put forth by these conscientious physicians. I testify most gratefully to the disappearance of these distressing phases of inharmony after the rules of perfect divine Principle had been understandingly applied with the help of a loving Christian Science practitioner. I rejoice, as did the Apostle Paul, that this touch of pain, this suffering of the flesh, compelled me to seek the remedy for it. (See Miscellaneous Writings, p. 200.)

Soon after the study of Christian Science was taken up, it became apparent to me from unmistakable proofs that if "obedience is the offspring of Love," as Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 117), before these foes could be combated there was urgent need for regeneracy, for purification of thought; for I had discovered that many carnal, erroneous concepts of myself, of my brother-man, and of man's relation to his Maker were defrauding me from manifesting the perfect idea of God's creating. As my thought gradually became placed upon something immeasurably higher than the various long-standing assertions of self, such as resentment, judging, criticism, and the like, the physical manifestations became proportionately better, until the burdens were finally lifted. "Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out," we read in Proverbs.

I am exceedingly grateful for the understanding which has come to me of this healing truth. I am grateful also for unity of thought in the home; grateful for this knowledge of God's protective power; and to our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy; also for the literature, and the privilege of the church services. Last, but not least, I am profoundly grateful to the loving practitioner who gave me an understanding to support me and to shield me from the baneful effects of my own conclusions. (See Science and Health, p. 417.)

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