Testimony of Healing February 28, 1925 Issue

Christian Science has been such a wonderful revelation...

Florence S. Lindau

Christian Science has been such a wonderful revelation and help to me that I should like to try to express my gratitude for all the blessings I have derived from it. When I first heard of this religion I had been for many years a great sufferer from chronic sciatica and rheumatism in other forms, which had gradually attacked my whole body. For many years I was unable to walk any distance without pain, and had to use an invalid chair. I also had become very much dissatisfied with the teachings of my church, and never seemed to gain much help or comfort from the services. I tried to feel that all its ceremonies were necessary, but it was a hard task for me to conform to them. The last time I partook of the sacrament, I felt it was empty and did not help me in the least.

Soon after this, I was told of Christian Science by a friend, who, after asking why I was lame, said I could be cured. I felt at the time that she was very kind, but quite ignorant of what I had gone through. I had tried every kind of medical aid,—baths, electricity, and so forth,—and had been told I should probably get worse as I grew older. The next day my friend brought me the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and told me to read it. After she had gone, I read steadily for a long time, and knew at once it was just what I had been hungering for all my life. The wonderful thought that I was God's child and that He really loved me and did not sent this continual pain and sickness because He was angry with me, gave me great happiness even then. The chapter on Prayer was the most beautiful thing I had ever read. When my husband came home I gave the book to him to read, and he at once felt as I did,—that we had indeed found the truth. After reading for a few weeks I suddenly found I had lost all sense of an internal trouble I had previously had. At times the rheumatism seemed to be worse, but I realize now that this was due to Truth bringing all error to the surface to be destroyed.

During the winter I had one very bad attack of acute rheumatism similar to my usual turns, and was in desperate straits as I felt too ill to help myself, and neither did we have enough understanding to apply the truth. My husband said I must have help, medical or Christian Science, whichever I wanted; and I at once chose Christian Science. He went to a lady of whom we had heard as a very earnest Christian Scientist. She came immediately to see me, and I shall never forget the wonderful help and comfort she brought me. She talked with me a little, which calmed me, as I was partly delirious, I think; then gave me a treatment. In a few days I was free from pain to a great extent, and so well, without tedious convalescence as before, that I was out in a fortnight. Previously I had been unable to go out for two or three months.

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