Testimony of Healing March 28, 1925 Issue

I desire to express my gratitude for the understanding...

Harold Ward with contributions from Sarah J. Ward

I desire to express my gratitude for the understanding I have of Christian Science. Six years ago I was in the depths of despair. For two years I was under the doctor's care, laboring with sugar diabetes, mental depression, and the constant fear of a nervous breakdown. Many times the thought was with me that I was becoming a burden to those about me. During that time I was subject to a very strict and special diet.

While I was, to sense, suffering under this condition, a dear friend kindly asked me to attend a Christian Science testimony meeting. I accepted the invitation, and was greatly impressed with the testimonies as to the healing power of God, though at the time I was not willing to give up my hope in materia medica. A few months later my doctor informed me that I would have the disease, sugar diabetes, as long as I lived; and it was then, in my disappointment, that I turned to God, through the study of Christian Science, for healing.

I can never express in words sufficient gratitude for this truth, which so lovingly uplifted my thought, and by so doing cured me of that dreaded disease. It just proved to me that the only healing I required was the healing of my wrong thinking. When I was willing to become as a little child and to be divinely led, I realized that "with God all things are possible." I received such a blessing, too, in being released from the bondage of fear, and such an uplifted thought, with a desire to know more about God, that all thought as to the food I should eat instantly left me; and from that time I have eaten whatever I have desired. I feel so thankful for this blessing, because it has taught me that I must not live for myself alone; and much of selfishness has left me, enabling me to understand better that God is Love, and that by reflecting Love we learn to know still more of Him.

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