Testimony of Healing January 16, 1902 Issue

I wish to speak of the healing received on the two occasions,...

Mary Troxell

I wish to speak of the healing received on the two occasions, when I had the privilege of seeing Mrs. Eddy and hearing her speak.

The first of these was when she addressed the Mother Church at the annual meeting in Tremont Temple, June 6, 1899. I awoke on the morning of that day with a sense of suffering so severe that it was a great effort to get up. I could eat no breakfast, and after working an hour, was relieved, but by no means free. Ordinarily I should have thought it the part of wisdom to remain quiet, but so great was the desire to be present at the meeting and hear our Leader, that I arose, dressed, and went to the Temple, feeling that I should hear the needed word of healing and strength from her lips. Nor was I disappointed. While Mrs. Eddy was speaking, the pain lessened, and then I forgot it completely until later, during the services, I realized that all sense of discord had vanished. Not only this, but for many months afterwards I was better and stronger, did better healing work for my patients, and experienced an unusual degree of spiritual and mental freedom. The second time the healing was realized, was during our visit to Pleasant View last June. I was not in any physical discord at the time, and though the need seemed great along other lines, on the way to Concord, the sense of quiet joy, and gratitude that I was privileged to visit Pleasant View, was uppermost. While we were resting on the lawn, waiting for our Leader to speak to us, I experienced the most marvelous sense of love I have ever known—love that satisfies, nourishes, sustains, uplifts, and blesses; love that washes away all that is unlike itself; love that knows only its own purity. All fear for the future, all anxiety and care, dissolved as a dream, a weight of oppression was lifted, and I felt the most absolute assurance of God's guidance for the future, of His care and enduring, sustaining power and presence.

Our Mother's words turned me anew to her grand Message, and I have spent many hours with it since, always finding strength and help. When I left Pleasant View, I said in my heart, "Lord, it is good for me to have been here," and I pondered deeply the hallowing influences of that wonderful day, and the marvelous power for good in a single human life, directed and sustained by God. During the conflicts which followed when I "came down from the mount," I went literally on the strength of that meat forty days, winning victories for God and His Christ.

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