Testimony of Healing October 8, 1927 Issue

I have been healed of neurasthenia, insomnia, and heart...

Violet Marriott

I have been healed of neurasthenia, insomnia, and heart trouble. I first heard of Christian Science twelve years ago. I had been suffering from intermittent spells of insomnia for five years, and had tried nearly every known material remedy. The condition was getting steadily worse, and I resorted to the use of sleeping tablets, which were very harmful. It was then a dear friend took me to see a Christian Science practitioner, who talked very lovingly to me and explained many things. That which stands out most clearly to me now is the great and wonderful fact that God is Love and that He does not afflict His children. Until that moment I had been laboring under the delusion that my sufferings were necessary, a part of the divine plan to elevate and improve character.

It was a great comfort to hear such a different explanation, and I forthwith purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and began to read it and the Lesson-Sermon regularly. I expected to be healed at once, but for the encouragement of those whose healing seems slow, let me here state that the healing of insomnia did not take place for seven years. However, during all that time my general health was improving, and the spells of insomnia were less frequent.

I had wonderful help with the children. My boy was healed of a severe attack of croup in three days; measles was overcome for them all very quickly, one child being out of doors within a week. They were also most wonderfully protected during an epidemic. In fact, the immunity from illness in the family has been the most wonderful thing, and cause for great gratitude. I myself was healed of a bad attack of tonsillitis in five days; and an internal trouble, which developed after the birth of the youngest child, was instantaneously healed through the loving help of the practitioner.

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