Testimony of Healing September 26, 1936 Issue

I have often gained help and encouragement from reading...

R. Hewitt Ivy

I have often gained help and encouragement from reading testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals. It is with a sincere desire to help others that I here tell of a few of the blessings which have come into my life through the study and application of this new-old truth, as given to a needy world by our fearless and pure-minded Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.

Christian Science came to me in an hour of great need, after the doctors had done all they could to help me, but without any lasting benefit. I had decided to take their advice and submit to an operation for appendicitis, but instead at the last moment I wrote to a Christian Scientist one hundred and eighty miles away for help, and I was quickly healed. For months prior to this I had not slept properly and my life had been a burden. I had my parents to look after, so I had to go right on, although the World War had left me a nervous wreck. Now, after these nine years of Christian Science study, when I reflect on the past, I can only say, Thank God for what it has done for me, in teaching me how to know Him and prove His great love as an ever-present help in every need. I have been healed of the smoking habit, and of the drinking habit, and have seen many faults of character fall at the feet of this teaching. I have seen financial problems solved, some in marvelous and unforeseen ways.

I have had many healings through the application of this Science, some of which were of appendicitis, influenza, blood poisoning, sprained joints, insomnia, nervousness, and swollen veins. I have seen wonderful protection to my crops in periods of drought, locust invasion, and so forth; also to my family and myself at different times. All honor to our Father-Mother God! I realize how far I still seem from the mark, but when I review the past I feel I have courage to press on and know each day that I am making more headway toward that true consciousness of perfect dominion and peace and harmony called heaven.

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