Christian Science
Testimony
NERVOUSNESS AND
INSOMNIA HEALED
One year ago I was suffering from
extreme nervousness and insomnia. Although having no
knowledge of Christian Science (in fact I imagined it to be
the same as hypnotism, etc.), I turned to it almost as a
drowning man would clutch at a straw, little imagining the
marvelous peace it was to bring me. The first night I took
treatment, I slept like a baby, and a calm, beautiful rest
seemed upon me all the next day. Filled with amazement, and
knowing, instinctively, that no human power had
touched me, an overwhelming curiosity urged me to know more
of this Science. I poured question after question to the
lady who had healed me; my whole thought seemed engrossed
with this wonderful Truth. Then there came to me such a
flood of Light, that I was as one "struck dumb.'' Awed and
trembling, I, for the first time, caught a glimpse of the
Truth of Being. In that one brief moment, I learned —
as though the words were emblazoned on my mind with letters
of fire — that God is never separated from his
offspring; that this mortal dream of life is
false; the only life is the Christ-life. I saw
that I had been sound asleep until that moment —
dead in my sins!
What human words could describe
such an awakening. The "upheaval" produced by so sudden a
transition was indescribable. Then, for the first time, I
realized the meaning of our Master's words: "No man putteth
new wine into old bottles, else the new wine doth burst the
bottles." I must first empty myself of the old man and his
deeds, before I could put on the new. So I had to come down
from the mountain and begin the ascent from the foothills
— one step at a time. My one most earnest desire is to
become "as a little child," that I may gain that perfect
Love which casteth out all fear."
A.
J.
Denver, Colorado
Christian Science
Testimony
The Christian Science Journal, February,
1897
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