Testimony of Healing December 6, 1930 Issue

I am one of those who came to scoff and remained to...

Alice Rowe

I am one of those who came to scoff and remained to pray. I took up the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, to find the mistakes in it, but instead of mistakes I found that for which I had been looking all my life. I did not think of any healing, but one day I put up my hand to remove my glasses and found that I had been reading without them. I had worn them for reading and sewing for sixteen years, and had had, on two occasions, to have stronger ones. About one year previous to reading this wonderful book I had been obliged to have glasses for out of doors as well, but even with the glasses I was unable to do sewing or mending by artificial light. To-day, without them, I can do sewing, mending, or reading of the finest print, under artificial light.

Besides the healing of defective eyesight, I have had many healings, mental, moral, and physical. Toothache disappeared with the declaration, "There is no pain in Truth, and no truth in pain" (Science and Health, p. 113). My finger, which was stung by a poisonous insect and had become quite stiff and painful, was healed through the realization that in divine Mind one idea cannot harm another.

For about five years before coming into Christian Science I suffered from constant colds; but through the reading of the textbook this condition fell away, and with it a continual sense of fatigue. An internal abscess burst and disappeared on my going over the past to see if any unloving thoughts were being held against anyone. When I replaced these wrong thoughts with the true concept of my brother man the healing took place, and within five days of the first sign of the abscess I was completely healed.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Testimony of Healing

I have for a long time felt it my duty to testify to the...