Testimony of Healing June 17, 1905 Issue

I think it is sometimes encouraging to hear testimonies...

Rita Currie

I think it is sometimes encouraging to hear testimonies of slow healing in Christian Science, and I shall be very glad if my experiences prove helpful to others. Before I heard of Christian Science I had been suffering for years from dyspepsia, and, although I tried almost every remedy I could hear of, saw many doctors, and took long voyages, still I grew steadily worse, and the last doctor I saw, said frankly that he could not cure me, and that I was never likely to get well. I have been studying and trying to practise Christian Science now for nearly four years, and during that time I have been slowly and almost imperceptibly healed. I now feel better than I ever did in my life. As soon as I began to read Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, I knew it was a revelation of Truth, and for weeks I read it all day and for part of each night. I got a foretaste of spiritual realization, and felt then so good and happy that I thought I should never be troubled with an unkind or irritable thought again, but, like many others, I had to descend from the "mount" and begin to work out my salvation. I asked for treatment and, I am thankful to say, I saw at once that the slowness of my healing was caused by errors in my own consciousness. I did not, therefore, waste time in wondering whether circumstances or the practitioner was to blame, but I did honestly begin, and I have continued to face each claim of self-love or any other error, as it came up, and by declaring the nothingness of evil and the allness of good, I havve been enabled to cast out many ills. My experience in Christian Science has not been a "bed of roses." I have had many struggles, and sometimes I have seemed to be enveloped in dark clouds, but I have always looked to divine Love for help and He has never failed me, and I know He never will. I know that the clouds may become God's chariots, by which we are carried up to Him. I have always emerged from the gloom to a higher plane of thought. I have often found encouragement in Bible texts which exhort to patience, and when I have seemed to be beset by many foes, I comforted myself in the assurance that there is only one power—infinite wisdom and Love—guiding all; and that all things do work together for good to those who honestly desire good. I have lately passed through the greatest trial of my life, the loss of my mother, but I was able to prove that the knowledge of God in Christian Science takes away the sting of death; and I have felt no sense of separation. The text, "I am the resurrection, and the life," came to me instead of any thought of death, and my consciousness was filled with a sense of ever-present Life and Love.

The greatest joy which Christian Science has brought is the spiritual awakening; it has indeed brought "beauty for ashes" and the "oil of joy for mourning." To me the sun shines more brightly, the birds sing more sweetly, the flowers are more fragrant, friends more true and loving. I know also that, as I am able, in God's strength, to overcome more and more of the beliefs of material sense, and as my spiritual understanding grows through the unfolding of truth in my consciousness, my perception of beauty and of good will become more and more clear, until I awake in His likeness, and then I know "I shall be satisfied," for I shall see divine Love and His manifestation in all the glorious beauty of divine reality.

I am very grateful to Mrs. Eddy for her steadfast courage and unselfish life.

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