I have every reason to give thanks for the blessings of membership in the Church of Christ, Scientist. Through Christian Science I have experienced much good in my life and received many proofs of its healing power. One of the loveliest and most convincing proofs was a healing I had three years ago, when I suddenly became seriously ill. Loss of appetite, stomach pains, and discomfort in other internal organs were part of the illness. Despite earnest prayer by a Christian Science practitioner, my condition did not improve over a period of months but, rather, grew worse. I was unable to retain solid food and had lost a substantial amount of weight.
I was gradually able, with the help of a different practitioner, to lift myself above the mist of error. I was again and again assured that we would most certainly see through this mist eventually, because it simply could not endure before the light of Truth. How grateful we need to be that in Christian Science we come to know and apply this redeeming, healing Truth, which illumines and purifies our consciousness. I still had many lessons to learn on the road to the complete healing. A passage from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy proved to be especially helpful to me (p. 390), "It is our ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony."
After four months I was completely healed and in a short time regained my previous weight. This healing was a wonderful proof of the efficacy of scientific prayer consistently applied. Many outsiders who saw this healing now inform me that they had ceased to believe I would recover. During the entire experience I was repeatedly urged by friends and relatives to at least obtain a medical diagnosis. I felt, and gathered from their remarks, that they considered my illness to be cancer. But I was certain I did not have to have my body examined but must rely absolutely on God, Spirit. I could not, and would not, halt between two opinions (see I Kings 18:21), and that was my reply to everyone. I can truly say with the Psalmist (119:92), "Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction."
