Some time ago, while still very far down in the valley, working out of what seemed at that time an impossible physical condition, I would often think how wonderful it would be if I were healed and could help others by my experience. So it is with great gratitude and joy that I give this testimony.
I was healed of what is known as an incurable organic disease, for which there is no help either in medicine or in surgery; and from the depths of despair I was restored to health, strength, and service to others. It was a most wonderful and beautiful healing; to those not knowing the truth, it seemed a miracle. But better than all else is the clear understanding it has given me of what God is; of my relation to Him; and why none of us need be under discordant bondage of any kind.
I have found that God is the only Mind; that evil is unknown to this Mind; that sin, disease, suffering, and matter with its varied discordant accompaniments are false beliefs, mesmeric suggestions from the outside, never coming from the one true Mind, God; that this Mind is the source or cause of all real things, such as purity, life, love, meekness, patience, compassion, health, strength, activity, and so forth—in fact, of all the attributes of God. Then it follows so clearly, so beautifully, that man reflecting this Mind, which is God, can in reality know and experience about himself only that which God knows. On page 31 of "No and Yes" Mrs. Eddy says: "Jesus cast out evils, mediating between what is and is not, until a perfect consciousness is attained. He healed disease as he healed sin; but he treated them both, not as in or of matter, but as mortal beliefs to be exterminated." Again, on page 11 of "Rudimental Divine Science" she says: "Health is the consciousness of the unreality of pain and disease; or, rather, the absolute consciousness of harmony and of nothing else. In a moment you may awake from a night-dream; just so you can awake from the dream of sickness." The truth which these lines contained came to me at one time during the working out of this problem with such a radiance that the false beliefs of sin, disease, and suffering were eliminated: I was born into the knowledge of my true selfhood, and was free.
