Testimony of Healing April 17, 1926 Issue

It is with the most sincere appreciation of the life of our...

Grace Archer Smith

It is with the most sincere appreciation of the life of our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, that I wish to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me and mine. When I turned to it for healing there was scarcely an organ in my body performing its natural functions, and I had got to where I seriously wondered how each medicine I was taking knew just where it was supposed to go. The practitioner was most loving and patient, and very soon I began to understand that God is the God of love, who did not send all this suffering to chastise me, as I had always been taught to believe, but that He did care for me and was more than willing to help me if I turned to Him in the right way. It is needless to say that as a little of the truth began to dawn on my consciousness I became so absorbed in the study of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, that in a few months I was a well woman, in better health than I could ever remember. Further proof of this healing was my regaining the thirty-five or forty pounds that made my weight normal.

I was most grateful for this healing, but the understanding of the Bible that was unfolded to me, explaining many seemingly contradictory statements, meant more to me than any physical healing.

During these years we have had many, many healings in our family of four. Our youngest son was healed of every manifestation of a fully developed case of mumps in three days. The pain was destroyed in a few hours. This was indeed a proof of the efficacy of our Leader's admonition to "stand porter at the door of thought" (Science and Health, p. 392), because from the minute he awoke in the morning, we refused to acknowledge that the error had any reality; so it had to go back to its native nothingness. If we would only do this with all our problems, how much more harmony we would reflect!

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