Testimony of Healing October 27, 1923 Issue

It is now over thirteen years since I first heard of Christian Science,...

Fanny K. Hillson

It is now over thirteen years since I first heard of Christian Science, and I feel that the time has come to express my gratitude through the pages of our periodicals.

When I first heard of Christian Science I was more or less of an invalid, constantly under the care of a physician, under a sentence of incurableness and helplessness. The fear of this, hanging over me for many years, had gradually changed me from a sunny, happy-dispositioned woman into a discontented one, a burden to myself and to those around me. Especially did I labor under a great sense of injustice. It seemed to me that I did not deserve to be tried so deeply; I felt I had given up so much,—the religion of my fathers, Judaism, and consequently father, mother, friends, and country,—so as to follow the Christ as taught in another church; and instead of having "all these things" added unto me, I was rewarded with constant ill health and worry. Many a time did I kneel down in prayer asking God to deliver me and heal me; yet, though my prayers were often answered for other things, my prayers for this one thing, which I so greatly desired, were, as I thought then, not answered.

Then one day my husband, who had been the first to accept the Christian faith, was also the first to bring Christian Science into our home. He himself was healed of chronic constipation and headaches. He was so happy and sure he had found the Christ, which he had so long sought, that he begged me to accept the truth as revealed in Christian Science. However, I stubbornly resisted the voice of Love, and was sure he had gone astray. But Truth knocked untiringly at the door of thought; and one day, when I was in a very low state of depression, I listened to the pleadings of my dear ones and resisted no more.

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