Testimony of Healing June 17, 1905 Issue

For one to be transported into blissful freedom from a...

Eugene A. Vaughn

For one to be transported into blissful freedom from a sense of excruciating pain, through the healing power of Truth, and that instantaneously, is surely convincing proof of the ever-present help which Christian Science has to offer a suffering world. This was my experience when I was suffering recently the most intense agony from an injured eye. For a period of three days and nights I had suffered from it, and to undertake to describe fully the sufffering attending the incident, would bring it to mind too vividly. While the work of healing did not reach completion until three days after the injury, it was so decidedly accomplished that I arose from what had been a couch of suffering, after a night of untold agony, to exclaim, "I am healed!" Error had fought its final battle all through the night; my brain had seemed to be on fire. My sufferings had been so much in evidence as to call forth the sympathies of my wife, who is not a Christian Scientist, but who had respected my wishes and had not interfered with my dependence on Science on previous occasions. When the evidence of my suffering was so manifest in me, she was led to suggest a material remedy, the application of warm water. While I recognized her good intentions, I saw the danger of yielding at the most trying period of my suffering. I declared against the healing power of matter, knowing that there is no compromise in Christian Science.

The first intimation of my healing was just before retiring, after the departure of some friends who had witnessed my trying condition. I felt the impulse to speak of it then. The suffering that followed after retiring, plainly told me, from previous experiences, that it was the final struggle of error. So filled was I with the truth of Christian Science, reaped from a constant study of our text-book for many years, that an abiding sense of Truth did not desert me in the face of the most tenacious suffering and pain. Truth maintained its supremacy as I willingly gave up to its healing influence. Many times during the period of sufffering the words of Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health, page 393, line 13, came to me, and I was led to "Hold fast that which is good." The sense of victory was as clear as the sunlight that seemed to lend its brightness to the freedom which came to me on that morning after a night of pain. The experience was a bitter one, and could I have averted it I most surely would have done so, but the lesson that has been gained, like many another during my new life in Christian Science, has wrought for me an understanding, the value of which can be measured only by one who has wrestled with error and overcome it by the truth. I would say to others who may have a slight understanding of the healing power of Christian Science: Error cries the loudest when the victory of Truth is at hand. This was my lesson.—Eugene A. Vaughn, Warren, R. I.

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