Testimony of Healing November 24, 1928 Issue

One evening I was sitting at my desk trying to solve a...

Isaac L. Barnett

One evening I was sitting at my desk trying to solve a problem which had been presented to me. After working on it for a long time, and from every possible angle, I stopped and asked God to tell me if there was anything else to be done. While waiting quietly for the answer, one of our hymns came into consciousness. Feeling that this must containg the expected answer, I took the Christian Science Hymnal and studied the hymn, and it brought back clearly to memory many of the Bible promises which are often forgotten in the stress of daily life. I had never before studied any of the hymns, except those which had been written by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy; but as our Hymnal belongs to our literature, it is well to study it, for many healings will be found therein.

Trying to keep myself in God's light and love has been a great protection to me. Before turning to Christian Science I was continually taking medicine and going to doctors. Since I turned to this Science, over six years ago, my health has been uniformly good, and I have not missed a single day from my accustomed activities. I experienced an instantaneous healing through an absent treatment in 1923. At that time I was living at a hotel with my daughter, who is not interested in Christian Science. One day she was taken ill, and when the doctor came he said it was influenza. I had to be with her constantly; and although I kept doing my mental work some fear evidently crept in, and on the third day I began to manifest all her symptoms. That evening I thought it wise to call on a practitioner for help. The practitioner reminded me of some of the truths contained in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and told me to go to bed, saying she would work for me. I went to bed, immediately fell asleep, and awoke in the morning perfectly well. This was a wonderful proof to me of the healing power of Christian Science.

It is impossible for me to express in words the gratitude due to Christian Science. The way that will come nearest to doing so, will be to try to live the life our dear Leader wants each Christian Scientist to live; and this will be my life's purpose.—Isaac L. Barnett, New York, New York.

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