Testimony of Healing August 11, 1934 Issue

In 1911 I turned to Christian Science for physical relief

Luther K. Bell

In 1911 I turned to Christian Science for physical relief. I was then suffering from neurasthenia. Heart, stomach, bowels, nerves, all seemed to be disordered. In addition, sore throat, from which I had long suffered, passed into quinsy. My healing was very slow, but as I look back now from the altitude of freedom I have since gained, I realize that during this protracted period there came about a steady spiritualization of thought and consequently a steady healing of physical conditions.

While I was in morbid fear of heart trouble, it was the stoppage of passages in the head, with consequent pressure in my ears, that caused the keenest suffering. I had been studying Christian Science several years, with comparatively few results, when I felt it necessary to have a surgeon blow these passages open. There was brief relief, then they closed tighter than ever. Worse, possibly, than the physical suffering was the feeling of self-condemnation for having lapsed from the truth. Then I turned wholly to God, and permanent relief came. A concurrent difficulty was insomnia. Night after night, when I would call for help, devoted practitioners would labor, always ready, never discouraged. Some seven years or so after I took up the study of Christian Science, the ills which had so long tormented me gradually faded from my consciousness. Since then, with few exceptions, I have enjoyed complete freedom and activity.

Our home has been blessed and our three children guarded. My wife and I never cease to be grateful for the simplicity and purity of thought which Sunday school brings to the children, fortifying and strengthening them. I am thankful for "the pillar of the cloud by day" and "of fire by night," by which we have been led through business trials. Each change, seemingly so disturbing at the time, has been made a means for progress. In proportion to my understanding of the truth about the one God, man, and the universe—one law, governing, directing, protecting—I have come to see something of the falsity of personal sense.

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