Testimony of Healing May 5, 1928 Issue

For several years a thought had now and then presented...

Nettie Giuras

For several years a thought had now and then presented itself to me that should I ever be sick, I could always be healed in Christian Science; for I had long realized that medicine had no power to heal, since there is no real power in matter, but only the seeming power which mortals gave it. But when the time came and I needed healing, I did not turn to Christian Science for help; I believed there were other, newer, so-called metaphysical healing systems that had more to give me than had Mrs. Eddy's teachings! And of course I wanted the very highest, as I thought. I went to see a so called "healer," and was told I could be healed without any effort or study on my part. And that was most satisfactory—to have someone work out my salvation for me; and sure enough I was healed, but only for six weeks, when my trouble returned with renewed force. Then came to pass Jesus' words, "And the last state of that man is worse than the first." And why? Because the house was empty; I had no understanding of Truth wherewith to fill it. I still held to my "healer," who now received assistance from several other healers. I also entered a so-called metaphysical college to make a study of the teachings, thinking if it was the truth I would be healed. But I became worse; and after a year of untold suffering, mental and physical, I was, so to speak, collapsing. My "healer" left the city without telling me. The hypnotic spell was then broken, and I was ready for Christian Science. My sense of material selfhood was humbled, and I was able to say, "I can of mine own self do nothing." Strange as it may seem, in my great need I met a lady who had gone through the same experience in false teaching and practice as I, and gently and lovingly she led me back to Christian Science, through which I was healed.

Words cannot express my love and gratitude for the patient work done by the practitioner.

As I go on in my study of Christian Science, I know positively that there is no other way by which we can be saved from sin, sickness, and death. He who tries to climb up by "some other way" is, as the Bible says, "a thief and a robber" and will be sentenced accordingly, even as I myself was. Surely "through much tribulation" we enter the kingdom.

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