Testimony of Healing April 27, 1929 Issue

Christian Science has been my only physician for over...

Dorothy E. Harmon

Christian Science has been my only physician for over nine years. When a girl I was seriously ill with dysentery, followed by what was called locked bowels. Rigorous treatment was necessary to overcome this condition even partially, but it was never completely destroyed while I was using medical remedies. A number of years later, an operation was said to be the only cure for the condition then existing. The operation was performed and for two weeks following it I suffered unspeakable agony. The doctors told me that if I neglected taking medicine daily it would mean another operation; and this filled me with such dread that I became, under their directions, a victim of the daily medicine habit.

For fifteen years I endured one form of suffering after another: rheumatism, biliousness, chronic headaches, extreme nervousness, and many so-called sympathetic ailments. Through a friend I became interested in Christian Science, but fear was so deep-seated that it was some time before I stopped taking medicine daily. A physician, friendly in his attitude toward Christian Science but certainly not understanding its divine Principle, told me that I need not expect Christian Science or anything else to cure the bowel condition, as it was incurable; and that all I could do was to keep on for the rest of my life with two medicines daily, one supposed to counteract the effect of the other.

One day a dear Christian Science friend said to me, "Don't you think the time has come when you can leave it all with God?" For a moment fear gripped me, but it was instantly vanquished by the realization of the allness of God; and I replied, "Yes, I do." In two weeks the healing was complete. Fear was destroyed, together with faith in material means, and I was freed from the bondage of doubt. Here was positive proof of the power of Christian Science; and in the years since this healing it has never failed. Healing is always realized when the divine rules are correctly applied.

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