Testimony of Healing July 14, 1934 Issue

For many years I had periods of great suffering from...

Rose Butcher

For many years I had periods of great suffering from an internal trouble, which always left me weak and quite unable to follow my household duties. The drugs taken to relieve the pain brought on another serious condition for which I had an operation. I was weary and filled with despair, wondering why my desire for an active, happy life was so often frustrated. Sorrow, too, had come, which made life almost unbearable. Finally, I earnestly sought God, with the result that a friend brought me a Christian Science Sentinel; but even then I thought I could find God in my old way, and did not immediately recognize this as being an answer to prayer. I read articles on prayer by eminent theologians, which did not satisfy me; so at last I turned resolutely to Christian Science.

The textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was a revelation, answering all my questions. The chapter on Prayer seemed to present the only logical way in which to find the remedy for sin, sickness, or trouble of any kind; and my heart went out in deepest gratitude to the author who, I could see, was inspired to waken the world out of its mesmerism. When I started to read the textbook I had been in bed for two months and was in a very distressing state of health, with the prospect of another operation; but I began to feel stronger immediately, and continued to read. With the help of the church services and kindly encouragement from students of this Science, I was completely healed in a few weeks, and in the years which have followed have had no return of the trouble.

Sorrow which seemed overwhelming took longer to heal; but one day, whilst I was praying to be shown the way, these words from the textbook came to my thought (p. 495): "Allow nothing but His likeness to abide in your thought." I felt that it was God's message to me, and I saw that the battle must be in my thought—that good thoughts only must have a dwelling place in consciousness. I saw, too, that fear and self-pity had to be replaced with love and joy. Finally, after much stumbling and striving on my part, the wrong thoughts lost their foothold, and a peace which passes understanding reigned.

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