Testimony of Healing February 12, 1927 Issue

I have great reason to thank God for what Christian Science...

Nellie Madgen

I have great reason to thank God for what Christian Science has done for me. About twelve years ago I took up the study of Christian Science, longing to be freed from neurasthenia, the symptoms of which are too impossible to describe, for "fear hath torment." The chief symptom was heart weakness, which kept me practically a semi-invalid for fifteen years. During the first visit of a Christian Science practitioner I found that I could walk upstairs without difficulty, something I had not done for years. About this time I had beautiful proofs of God's care in instantaneous healings of acute troubles such as tonsillitis, sick headache, fever, and rheumatism; but the healing of neurasthenia took a long time. At first I kicked "against the pricks," wondering why I suffered so; but this only retarded the healing. Then came a day when I felt grateful even for that slow healing, because it meant enforced study, and thus growth. I found that the right application of Christian Science means regeneration, the replacing of all false thinking with right, healthful God-thoughts. I was healed of the thought of looking back with regret at the huge slice which seemed to have been cut out of my life because of invalidism, through reading the words from Joel, "I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten." I saw that no years or life could be lost when man reflects God, who is eternal Life. And today, when I look back, not with regret but with joy and gratitude because of the overcoming, I find that the very blackest period of that time I cannot even remember or describe; so that I can say I have proved in part the words found in Isaiah: "O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us. ... they are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish." I would give thanks to Mrs. Eddy for her great gift to the world; to all who have helped me on the way; to the Christian Science practitioner for her loving, patient, and faithful work; and above all to God, to whom all glory is due.—(Mrs.) Nellie Madgen, Monkseaton, Northumberland, England.

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