Testimony of Healing October 18, 1924 Issue

In September, 1918, Christian Science healed me of...

Bessie E. Hogan

In September, 1918, Christian Science healed me of heart trouble, stomach disorder, and nervousness, all of a serious nature. I had been taking medicine from three different physicians without any relief whatever, when a dear friend gave me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. At that time I did not pay any attention to the book, but laid it away. Then some days afterwards I just happened, so it seemed, to open a drawer in my dresser,—and there was that book. I picked it up more to pass the time away than to gain any good from it; but as I opened it I read these words on page 231: "What God cannot do, man need not attempt." I knew immediately that these words meant healing for me. I closed the book, for I was overcome; and I sat there crying for joy. I had at last found the God "who healeth all thy diseases," of whom the Psalmist tells us. Besides other medicine I was taking drugs for my stomach; but when I read one day, "Eat what is set before you, 'asking no question for conscience sake'" (Science and Health, p. 222), I laid aside all drugs and have had no desire to take any since.

Christian Science is to me the bread of Life; and I love it. I am especially fond of the Sentinel, for I was led to find the "scientific statement of being" in Science and Health (p. 468) by a testimony in this periodical which referred to it as a very great help in our journey from sense to Soul; and I have indeed found it to be so. I am so thankful that Mrs. Eddy made it possible for us to have practitioners. I am grateful for the help we may receive from their right thinking, which enables them to be ready to give us a lift at any time, day or night. I have had much help in this way; but when a sense of weariness or discouragement seems to overtake me, I turn to Science and Health, and wherever I open the book I find a message which brings rest and peace. Before learning anything of Christian Science I was unable to do my own work, and had to take a taxicab to a physician's office twice a week. To-day I do all the housework I want or need to do, and can walk any reasonable distance without taxing my strength, because I know "the Lord is the strength of my life."

I owe all I have to Christian Science, and am learning to say and to put into practice the wonderful words of Jesus, "Not my will, but thine, be done."

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