This testimony is to express my gratitude to God for Christian Science, which was first demonstrated by Christ Jesus and revealed to this age by Mary Baker Eddy. I have had its blessings through many years.
My mother had a wonderful healing in one treatment from a Christian Science practitioner. She was suffering from lung trouble, and one day as she was lying in bed with glasses of medicine at her bedside, she decided to try Christian Science, although she had previously made fun of it. She telephoned a practitioner, and to my mother's great surprise the practitioner asked her to come to see her. Mother replied that she could not, for she was sick in bed. The practitioner said she was sure it would not hurt her; so Mother decided to comply.
She went to the practitioner's house and stayed about an hour, listening to her explanations of Truth. At the end of that time she felt so well that she decided she would go on downtown and do some Christmas shopping. The healing was complete and permanent, for there was never a vestige of the lung trouble thereafter. I am grateful for my mother's firm stand for Christian Science and grateful that when I married, it was to a sincere student of this Science, a fact which has helped us to have a very harmonious home.
About seven years ago I suffered from a difficulty in my head, in the region of one ear, and my throat swelled until it was almost shut. When the thought would come as to how I could breathe if the throat closed, I would mentally insist that God is my Life. After perhaps a week or ten days I attended a Wednesday testimony meeting. The reading and the testimonies were especially inspiring to me, but as I was leaving the edifice, the physical condition became worse by the minute. On the way home I remarked to my husband that error sometimes screams the loudest just when it is being destroyed.
I had been working on the problem from the standpoint of the allness of good. The suggestion came to me: "You have known the truth very clearly, but it has had no effect; in fact, the condition is much worse. Is there really anything to Christian Science?"
I thought: "Yes. What I have been knowing is the truth, and even if this condition takes me, it can never make me believe anything else." While I was thinking this, I had an instantaneous release from all pain, although the obstruction was still there, and I had the most wonderful sense of God's presence and actuality.
My voice came more clearly, and when we reached home, I was able to easily walk up our long flight of steps without having to stop even once; whereas I had been having to stop several times before reaching the top. The next morning I realized that the obstruction had drained away during the night.
In about another week the same condition began to appear on the other side of my head. I knew that I had had a healing in Christian Science and that a difficulty really healed cannot return. I searched my consciousness to see what was wrong and found that it was a form of fear due to a vivid remembrance of the pain. When I realized that as an idea of God I had no element of fear, the trouble disappeared. This overcoming of fear has helped me since, when it has been necessary to stay alone at night.
About two years ago I had a sudden and severe internal hemorrhage which affected the action of my kidneys. The condition was so alarming that I immediately thought of asking for help from a Christian Science practitioner. However, the previous summer I had had the priceless experience of class instruction in Christian Science, and knowing that my class teaching was complete and sufficient, I decided to undertake the healing work for myself. I handled every thought that came to me. About the middle of the day I began to feel weak, but I realized that God is my Life and that this Life cannot be affected by the loss of blood. By the end of the day the hemorrhaging had ceased, and there was no recurrence. All of the other discordant symptoms gradually disappeared also. I am deeply grateful for every phase of Christian Science and for all who have helped me along the way.— Peoria, Illinois.
