When I look back over the years that I have been a student of Christian Science, it is difficult to find adequate words to express my gratitude for the many blessings and convincing proofs of its healing power I have had.
I had not had much experience in practicing Christian Science when our baby son developed an eye disease. My husband was not at that time a student of Science. We were fearful and turned to the medical profession. Some years later we had a baby daughter, and the same disease appeared in one of her eyes. Then I understood that the belief of this disease had not been destroyed in my consciousness and that this was an opportunity to destroy it now through the healing power of Christian Science.
I asked my mother, who was a practitioner, for treatment for the baby. One day when the appearance of the baby's diseased eye was alarming and I was overcome by a great fear, I telephoned the practitioner. The calm, convincing words of truth she spoke allayed the fear a great deal. Thinking of the former experience with our little boy, I said, "I must have patience, because this can only be healed very slowly." At the other end of the line the practitioner said: "What has to be healed slowly? There is nothing to be healed. Your baby is perfect now!" A great calm came over me.
After this telephone call I went to the baby's cradle. I bent over her and saw that both her eyes were as clear as could be. The words which the practitioner had so firmly spoken had been effective. Mrs. Eddy says on page 224 of Science and Health, "No power can withstand divine Love." Great was my gratitude.
When living in Indonesia I was healed with the help of a practitioner of dysentery in its worst form. Sometime after this healing took place, I was playing games with my husband and children when I felt a return of the symptoms. Being in severe pain I had to leave the gay company and go to my bedroom.
I was overwhelmed by fear and pain. Mrs. Eddy says on page 1 of the textbook, "Desire is prayer," and my earnest desire to apply the truth of Christian Science made me calm. Then suddenly very strongly the thought came to me that there is but one action, the action of divine Truth. At the same moment the pain stopped, and the symptoms disappeared. How such a healing comes about is clearly explained in these words (ibid., p. 14): "Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual—neither in nor of matter—and the body will then utter no complaints. If suffering from a belief in sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well."
With a heart filled with gratitude and gladness, I could join my husband and children again in their game. I lived for many more years in the tropics, but there was no recurrence of the illness.
Another instantaneous healing was the result of my previous thorough study of that week's Lesson-Sermon, outlined in the Quarterly. It was in the period that I was a teacher in a Christian Science Sunday School. The subject of the lesson was "Christ Jesus."
That Sunday I was sitting waiting in my class just before the start of the session when I felt a terrible pain in my chest and a sense of suffocation in my throat. I could hardly breathe, and I could not speak. I was panic-stricken. What must I do? The Sunday School session would start in a minute. How could I get away? Then all of a sudden these words came into my thought: "What about the Christ? You have studied the subject 'Christ Jesus' to explain to your pupils. Think of the Christ; it is here!" At once I felt the tightness in my throat relax, and I was free. I could speak; I could sing. With what great joy I taught my pupils that Sunday!
I thank God, who sent us our Master and Way-shower, Christ Jesus, and our beloved Leader. I am deeply grateful for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, for class instruction, for our periodicals and our faithful practitioners, for the privilege of church work, indeed for all the blessings Christian Science is giving us.— Syndal, Victoria, Australia.
