Testimony of Healing September 28, 1935 Issue

I have only to pause to consider the great changes which...

Gloria Leven with contributions from Della Katz

I have only to pause to consider the great changes which Christian Science has wrought in my human experience to be filled with humble, heartfelt gratitude.

Every few weeks, from the age of nine, I was attacked by severe pains and stiffness in the leg joints, and I limped badly. The doctors diagnosed the trouble as rheumatism, although it hardly seemed possible in one so young. When I was thirteen a few statements I read about Christian Science immediately made me resolve to be a Scientist.

Shortly afterwards I timidly entered a near-by branch church, wherein so much love and harmony were expressed that from that time I never willingly missed a church service. The following summer I was sent to a girls' camp. Here I was seized with the severest rheumatic attack I had ever experienced. I started out to walk a short distance, but was so crippled that I had to turn back. One of the camp counselors sat up far into the night urging me to take some sort of medicine. I steadfastly refused. Two things I had learned: first, God is Love; and, secondly, to a Christian Scientist Mind is the only medicine. The next day I was very much surprised that the attack had passed so quickly. I have never had another since. I did not then realize what had taken place, but I have since seen that the honest striving to live up to one's highest understanding brings healing. One grain of truth and obedience to this truth accomplished this healing, before I had ever seen the Christian Science textbook or knew that there were practitioners to whom one could go for help.

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