Testimony of Healing August 27, 1932 Issue

In the year 1903 I was given up by four doctors in the...

Rhoda A. Morehead

In the year 1903 I was given up by four doctors in the town where we lived at that time. I was suffering with diabetes, lung trouble, and an internal tumor, and there would be months when I could not talk out loud.

My husband was not satisfied with the doctors' verdict, so he left me in the hands of a good nurse and went to a city in another state to get a specialist of thirty-five years' practice, who had helped me some eight years before. We had written to this doctor, but had received no reply. Finding that the doctor was in England, but was expected home in a few days, my husband left word for him to come to me as soon as he could. But a letter came from the doctor instead, asking me to have treatment in Christian Science, and saying he was sure I should be healed, as he had been healed through Science when all material aid had failed him. He also said we should throw away all material remedies. Well, I did as he said; and I am so grateful to say I was healed by Christian Science, and am as well and healthy as can be. I was very slow in grasping the truth that makes free, but this made necessary closer adherence to the study of Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," for which I am grateful.

I have the great privilege of being a member of The Mother Church and of our little church here, of which I was Second Reader for three years. I have also had class instruction. I find that trials are rungs in the ladder of experience whereby we can go higher, and that we may "unloose the latchets of his Christliness, inherit his legacy of love, and reach the fruition of his promise: 'If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you'" (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 92). When we abide with God, we can ask and receive His true blessings. Truth and Love have sustained me through sorrow and separation from loved ones, for we learn that there is no separation in the divine Mind. We learn in Christian Science to love our beloved Master, the Way-shower, and our Leader and her work.

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