Testimony of Healing November 22, 1924 Issue

Some years ago I found myself broken in health, and...

Harriet C. Foss

Some years ago I found myself broken in health, and without faith in medicine. This had come about partially through reading a pamphlet on the inefficiency and uncertainty of medicine, according to medical authority. I had therefore flung away the simple remedies I had once relied upon. Next I listened to those who advocated mental science, hypnotism, theosophy, et cetera. But when they spoke slightingly of God or Christ a revulsion of feeling came to me, and there was no further desire to study their methods. As I had been brought up in an orthodox church, I clung to the best I found there. Nearly five years after hearing of Christian Science I began to investigate it for myself, although I had already received many benefits from my association with Christian Scientists. A copy of the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, had been presented to me many years before. I had lent it to others but had not read it myself, for I was not at that time in need of physical healing, and I believed my old religion to be as good as any.

Even after a breakdown in health I did not study the book. It took me all those years to find out that I wanted Christian Science. This makes me patient now with those who do not accept Science at once on hearing of its results. I had class instruction from one of Mrs. Eddy's loyal students. This dear teacher asked what I thought about the healing in Christian Science. I replied, thinking of the healing in Jesus' time, that I should not be surprised to be perfectly healed in a moment. She explained so simply and clearly the truth about the God of love who sends no sickness, sin, or death that I accepted it at once and was healed of a most severe trouble. Very soon I was able to help myself and others with this truth. I devoted one entire year to the study of our Leader's works and the Bible to the exclusion of other reading. Many struggles with old beliefs of the flesh and mortal mind had to be fought; but I quickly got to the place where I loved the God of Christian Science, and consequently love my neighbor as never before.

One obstacle after another has been overcome during these years of my study and practice of Christian Science. It is my gratitude to Christian Science and to our Leader which prompts me to write this, and to give thanks to God for her beautiful life and for the truth revealed to this age through one so meek and just.

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