Testimony of Healing August 13, 1927 Issue

It is now some years since I first heard of Christian Science

Nancy H. Adams

It is now some years since I first heard of Christian Science. As soon as I began reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I stopped taking medicine which I had taken every day for a number of years. Whereas I had been anæmic and suffered from indigestion, I now became strong and well. Discontent was replaced with trust in God. Then the confusion brought about by erroneous theories began to be healed in my thought. I could not reconcile myself to the thought that some seemed to have greater capabilities than others, ill health or lack of intellect hindering the rest. That each would be judged according to his ability did not satisfy me. I began to understand the equality of man as God's reflection and his infinite capabilites now. The illogical view that some illnesses are God's will, while others we bring upon ourselves, was replaced by the truth that illness is no part of the real man and God knows nothing about it. God does not have to judge humanly, but lives in the "brightness of his glory," in whose "light shall we see light."

Christian Science was the source of comfort and protection throughout a long sea voyage during the war. Things seemed very dark, and without Christian Science I do not know how I should have had the courage to take the journey, but each night after my reading I felt a perfect sense of God's protection.

My little son has been brought up in Christian Science and has had no medicine; children's complaints have been quickly overcome. One night during an epidemic of influenza, he became suddenly feverish and delirious. My natural impulse was to take him in my arms, but I soon realized this added to my fear and was no help to him. I left him and took up Science and Health and realized I must love more, that my love must be as God's love, in which is no fear. As the sense of that "perfect love" which "casteth out fear" filled my thought, the fever left and he was quickly well. I am grateful that he can now apply Christian Science to his school problems, helping himself and others. Anxious fear for these little ones is dispelled as we try to leave them in the care of their Father-Mother God.

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