Testimony of Healing July 22, 1905 Issue

At the age of eleven years I was sent to school, most of...

Mary Alexander

At the age of eleven years I was sent to school, most of my childhood before that time having been spent abroad in a very light-hearted way and with few lessons. The sudden change to close confinement and long hours of study were too much, and I seemed to be always tired. The teacher and every one thought I was lazy, and urged me on till the middle of the second term, when I broke down. The doctor came and said it was a mental and physical overstrain, resulting in curvature of the spine. He forbade any study for a year and I was put into a plaster of Paris cast for six months, then for five years wore a stiff felt case, so that I could not possibly bend my back. During this time the pain grew worse and worse, long illnesses becoming frequent, until I was nineteen, when, through overstudy, I once more collapsed. A specialist was then consulted, who said that the spine was weak and not straight, but the root of all the trouble was displacement of several internal organs, caused by mental and physical overstrain when a child. This doctor ordered another instrument, saying I must never lift heavy weights or strain in myself any way, take no violent exercise and very little cycling.

In this condition, Christian Science was brought to me and I was healed of asthma of sixteen years' standing. My general health was so improved that I did not mention the internal trouble, or have treatment for it, but I left off wearing the instrument. One Sunday morning about two and a half years ago, while tidying my room, I did for the first time what the doctors had forbidden me ever to do, I carried a heavy pail of water downstairs. The old trouble all came back as bad as it had ever been. I lay down, saying to the friend with whom I lived that I had hurt myself and could not go to church. She put Science and Health by me and went out. After a little time the pain lessened and I was able to take up the book. It opened at page 209, and as I read, the truth became so clear to me, that as divine Mind governs and controls the universe, just so every organ in my body was controlled and kept in place by divine intelligence—and I was healed. I got up and dressed,—perfectly well,—and though many times since then I have lifted very heavy weights I have had absolutely no trouble.

As my thought travels back over those long years of suffering and unhappiness my heart is filled with love and thanks to God for giving to the world, through Mrs. Eddy, Christian Science which heals us of all our diseases.

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