Testimony of Healing March 17, 1934 Issue

I was an invalid and a widow striving to earn my daily...

Kate Arnold Baum

I was an invalid and a widow striving to earn my daily bread when, in 1901, I began attending Sunday morning services at a little Christian Science church next door, as I was not strong enough to walk to my own church, of which I had been a member since the age of fourteen. Granddaughter of a minister, I had sought inspiration, comfort, and peace from the Bible and church through all my suffering years. Disappointed in this I grew more and more despondent until I ceased to want to live, but was very much afraid of the change we call death. The First Reader of this little Christian Science church had been a pupil in our beloved Leader's last class, and a most consecrated worker in the cause of Truth.

One day a member asked me if I did not care to go to the Wednesday testimony meeting. I told her that I never went out before nine in the morning or after five in the afternoon, by order of two physicians, as the worst of my many troubles was a violent form of asthma. She replied that Christian Science could heal me, and gave me the Reader's home address. I went at once to see her; and I slept all that night for the first time in years. In three short weeks I was a new creature, radiant with a sense of life and joy, and I could eat any kind of food. The spiritually-minded woman whose prayers gave me my first understanding of the truth of the Bible promises gave me great inspiration. Stomach, kidney, joint, and throat troubles had been with me since I could remember, being caused, so the doctors said, by a violent poisoning when I was a baby. I was healed of much in those first few weeks; of a racking cough in a year, of the dislocated joints in two years, and of astigmatism in both eyes in ten years. I was daily and hourly declaring that sight is spiritual, and that I could see the right way to go, when the waters seemed deep financially. I did not know for ten days that my sight was "every whit whole." I could not see through my glasses to read the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, so reluctantly called on an optician. He carefully examined my eyes and the glasses, repeated his work on both, and then said: "Why are you wearing these strong glasses? There is no astigmatism in your eyes."

At one time the telephone rang while I was at work in the attic. I hurried down, and at the last turn I missed my footing and fell the rest of the way. A heart attack and fierce pain in my back prevented my getting up. Someone else answered the telephone, and I caught the name of a practitioner. I said: "Please ask her to hold the telephone until I can get there. I am badly hurt." With help I soon reached the telephone, and while I told of my great pain, the practitioner declared the truth out loud, "with authority." In less than five minutes I thanked her, hung up the receiver, and went back to my work in the attic in perfect comfort; and there was no more pain.

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