"There is a law of God applicable to healing, and it is a spiritual law instead of material" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p. 463).
Many years ago I asked for help in Christian Science for a peculiar ailment from which I had suffered at intervals since childhood without relief from doctors or medical remedies. The pain would strike quite suddenly, and I could breathe only with difficulty. With one Christian Science treatment the healing was complete. It was some months before I realized that I was healed. After this healing I drifted along, occasionally attending the Science church services and lectures and reading the literature.
Later I was instantaneously healed of an injury received many years before in a lumber mill. My knee had been wrenched out of joint, and I had spent several months in a hospital and received many kinds of treatment, involving ninety-two osteopathic treatments and electric massages. When I left the hospital, the doctor told me that I was fortunate to be able to use my leg at all and that I would always be crippled, for the condition would become worse as I grew older. Knowing that I could expect no further aid from the doctor, I again asked for help in Christian Science, this time of my wife, who was then a young but earnest student. The healing was immediate and complete.
Many years later I was healed of blood poisoning after being cut by a piece of rusty metal. At the time of the injury I was seized with a great fear of blood poisoning. Although a young student, I tried to know the truth as best I could, but the pain and suffering increased, and on the third day after the injury I was told by several fellow workers that blood poisoning had set in and that I would lose my arm if I did not get medical aid immediately. I insisted that God could heal me and made up my mind to stay with God and Christian Science, come what would. "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized" (ibid., p. 167).
I began to search my thoughts for what was holding the healing back, and then I remembered my fear at the time of the accident. I began to work for more trust and confidence in God, and as my thoughts turned more wholeheartedly to Him, the fear was overcome, the pain ceased, and the healing was complete in forty-eight hours. I am especially grateful for this healing, since it came through my own understanding of God.
I feel that these healings were the result of my lifelong faith in the power of God, although I did not know how to put it into practice until I found Christian Science.
I am grateful to Mrs. Eddy for her great gift to mankind, namely, a practical and workable explanation of God and man's relationship to Him. I am also grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, for class instruction, for the literature, and for the ability to rely on God for the needs of my family and myself. — Portland, Oregon.
