Testimony of Healing July 29, 1933 Issue

In the book of Psalms we are constantly counseled to...

Harry J. Hill

In the book of Psalms we are constantly counseled to "praise the Lord," but I seemed unable to find occasion for praise. Being self-conscious to the extent of shrinking from meeting people and also being burdened with sickness, I felt I had been unfairly treated.

My first contact with the healing truth as revealed by Mrs. Eddy came when I read the chapter on Prayer in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," a copy of which had been lent to my mother. I had read the chapter to pass the time away, as I had never heard of Christian Science before; but a few minutes afterwards I found that nasal catarrh, which army physicians had been unable to check, had completely vanished; and it has never returned.

For ten years after this healing I attended a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, but not until I was given the opportunity for work in a new branch church did I awaken to the need of taking Christian Science into my daily life and of making vigorous efforts to "praise the Lord." At this point I faced unemployment; and after five months without work, while I was studying the Lesson-Sermon from the Christian Science Quarterly, the fifth and sixth verses from the third chapter of Proverbs stood out clearly and I resolved to "lean not unto [my] own understanding." I was led to call at an office I had always considered useless as a channel for employment, but work was available for me immediately, and within a month a much better position was offered in the same firm. During this period of unemployment our needs were beautifully supplied.

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