Testimony of Healing March 14, 1925 Issue

It is about sixteen years since I first became interested in...

Florence A. Dennis

It is about sixteen years since I first became interested in Christian Science. At that time I was in very poor health. I was suffering from what my doctor called chronic bronchitis. My husband had passed on just two and a half years previously with consumption. I had nursed and cared for him for four years, and a great fear came over me. I feared for myself and for my four children. Not knowing the truth, as we are taught it in Christian Science, I feared they might inherit this trouble. With this fear hanging over me, my own health broke down. The only comfort my husband had had was in reading the Bible. While reading the ninety-first psalm he would say, "If that is true, I should be healed." He also said, "It must be we do not understand God's Word rightly, or I should not suffer in this way."

While the doctor called my trouble bronchitis, my friends and I felt sure that I had contracted my husband's trouble, because I seemed just as ill and had the same symptoms as he when the doctor had pronounced his trouble to be tuberculosis. My sister, a Christian Scientist, was visiting me at this time. I was very ill, so ill I had been in bed for some days. I could not speak above a whisper. I could not eat, had no appetite, and my temperature was very high. My sister pleaded with me to try Christian Science; but I said, "I cannot see that Christian Science can do me any good; and I am sure I have no faith in what a Christian Science practitioner can do for me; but I do know and believe that nothing is impossible with God." She said, "That is all you need to know to be healed." She then took a copy of The Christian Science Journal and looked down the list of practitioners' names. She said, "Here is one, and 'God is no respecter of persons.' " It was then about one or two o'clock in the morning. I was asleep in half an hour after she left the telephone, and did not wake until seven in the morning,—to find myself healed. That was sixteen years ago, and I have never had a return of the trouble. All fear of the disease was overcome at the same time; and I lost all faith in medicine. I have been healed of very severe burns; also of ptomaine poisoning.

Five years later—I had married again—a little son was born under Christian Science treatment. He has been a wonderfully healthy boy, and very happy; and he has had no trouble at all with so-called children's diseases. Every discord is quickly overcome through the application of the truth as taught in Christian Science.

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