Testimony of Healing November 16, 1946 Issue

From early childhood I had loved...

Jeanne Abel with contributions from Phyllis B. Lys, Philippa Olivia Brickman

From early childhood I had loved the Bible and always read it before I went to sleep at night, but I never really understood it until I became interested in Christian Science. When I was a schoolgirl my mother was healed of heart trouble after being given up by the doctors. Although our home instantly became a happy one, instead of one filled with fear, I would not at first go with the others to the Science church services. My mother finally persuaded me to go, and I shall never forget that first service. Truly I glimpsed heaven and realized that I had found the "pearl of great price." From then on I loved to study, especially the Lesson-Sermon, which our family used to read together in the evenings.

A year after coming into Christian Science I was sent away to boarding school. This was over thirty-eight years ago, and at the school no one had ever heard of Science. A few days after my arrival the principal asked me never to speak of my religion to the other girls. One of the teachers occasionally questioned me about it, however, and one afternoon she sent for me. Her room was dark with the curtains drawn, and she was lying on her bed in great pain from neuralgia. She asked me if Christian Science could heal her, and I said it could. I knelt down beside her bed. After a little while the room became very still, and then she said: "Child, I'm healed. Open the curtains and then come and tell me more of Christian Science." She never had one of the headaches again, and she read my copy of Science and Health whenever I could lend it to her.

Some years later my sister and I went for a visit to some relations who were opposed to Science. On the afternoon we arrived, when we were playing tennis, my sister slipped and sprained her ankle. We returned to the house and she asked me for help in Christian Science. The next day the ankle was still very painful and it seemed better for us to get away alone. We walked out of sight of the farmhouse, and then we stopped. I declared aloud God's allness and that nothing could separate one of His ideas from Him. Then we commenced to sing one of our Leader's hymns, and to walk, and by the time my sister had taken three steps she walked easily. We were soon swinging along up the road. We walked fully three miles, singing all the way, and returned to the farmhouse radiant. There was no more trouble with the ankle.

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