Testimony of Healing August 2, 1930 Issue

As a child I was always considered delicate, and as I grew...

Mae E. Barber

As a child I was always considered delicate, and as I grew up I had bilious attacks, constipation, headaches, indigestion, and trouble with my eyes, and was continually taking medicine for something. I had what the doctors called brain fever, and later on typhoid fever. About this time I met a friend on the train who told me about her healing in Christian Science. It impressed me very much, and I felt I should like to know more about this religion; but I did not begin the study of it then. My mother was a Bible student, and I grew up in the Sunday school and church; but I had never been satisfied with my understanding of the Bible, so had laid it aside, thinking I did not understand it.

Then my health became worse, and the doctor said I had a fibroid tumor and must be operated on in two weeks, or I would not have the strength to go through an operation. It was then I remembered about Christian Science, and decided to have treatment. My healing was slow, for I had much of self-pity to overcome. Strength was my greatest need, but I soon learned that God is my life, my strength, my all. I went about knowing that I lived, moved, and had my being in Mind, Spirit, not in matter.

I told the practitioner one day that I must be very dense, as I was not satisfied with the understanding I gained from some of the articles that I had read in the periodicals. I was told that God was not dense, and that I, as God's image and likeness, could not be so. About that time we had in the Lesson-Sermon the verse from Psalms, "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye." I saw then that God was the instructor and that He was guiding me; that He was the source of understanding, the only Mind. With this realization I was completely healed of all the discordant ailments I had had since childhood.

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