Testimony of Healing February 19, 1927 Issue

Several years ago, after I had exhausted medicine, surgery,...

Ada Bowling

Several years ago, after I had exhausted medicine, surgery, and osteopathy, I was healed in Christian Science. At the time I asked for help I had no faith in this healing method, as medicine had been my companion almost all my life and I failed to see how anyone could exist without it, even though it was not benefiting me at that time. I thought I would take a few treatments to prove to the friend who so kindly offered it to me that it could not reach a condition such as mine seemed to be. After taking about six treatments I realized that I was experiencing a peace I had never been conscious of before, and that it was being made possible through Christian Science.

The disease which troubled me was the result of an accident in which my side was injured; and I had suffered from it for about four years. An operation was performed, removing part of a rib. The condition seemed as bad, if not worse, after this operation, and continued so until I was healed in Christian Science. While I am very grateful for the physical healing, I know it was only the "bugle-call to thought and action," as Mrs. Eddy says (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 2); for through it I became acquainted with the God I had longed for years to know. This understanding has been gradually unfolding, and is teaching me that the knowledge of the true God is a panacea for every human discord when it is properly applied.

This truth has helped me greatly in overcoming a sense of financial limitation. During the greater portion of a year I was not regularly employed, and as my money was not available it seemed necessary to prove each day that God was indeed my refuge. The manna truly fell as I needed it, even to the supplying of my daily meals. This experience stands out in my life as the greatest proof of God's care I have ever known, for it taught me that money, or the lack of it, could not hinder my progress and supply; and I know that a dollar will never have the power over me again it seemed to possess at one time.

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