Testimony of Healing December 1, 1906 Issue

If now is the time to be healed, now is surely the time...

Kate D. Grant

If now is the time to be healed, now is surely the time to be grateful for the healing, and I am too thankful for the relief which came to me recently not to hope that my experience may show some one else the beauty and power of Truth in any emergency. I have studied and applied Christian Science for about ten years, but as I have been well practically all the time, this is the first instance in which I have applied its rules to extreme bodily suffering, and now I know for myself that it indeed heals.

One morning I wakened early and arose feeling happy, perfectly well and glad of the day that lay before me. Suddenly, while dressing, a sharp pain ran through my body, which was quickly followed by another, and in an instant I found it necessary to hold on to the washstand to keep from falling. I endeavored to realize and declare the truth, and my strength was sufficient to enable me to walk into my room, where I was glad to lie down. I spoke my brother's name, meaning to ask him to read to me; then it occurred to me that for the first time in my life I was absolutely alone, and that it would be an hour before any one would come within hearing distance of my voice, for I was sleeping in a room quite apart from the others and seemed unable to go to them. Simultaneously with this thought, I remembered that Mrs. Eddy says, "Would existence be to you a blank without personal friends? Then the time cometh when you will be solitary, left without sympathy and alone; but this seeming vacuum is already filled with divine Love" (Science and Health, p. 266). I knew that that hour had come for me, and it is true that I found divine Love there. The pain was like a vice, holding me literally motionless; but clinging to Love's everpresence, I felt it abate, and was able shortly to go to my brother's room and ask him to read to me. I asked for the "scientific statement of being" (Science and Health, p. 468). This he read and re-read, and then I asked for the answer to the question, "What is Mind?" on the next page. After reading this, I asked him to turn to the page where it says, "When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling steadfastly to God and His idea" (Science and Health, p. 495). He then read from line I6, page 493, to line 25, page 495. By this time divine Love had met the need and I was healed, freed from the most terrible agony I had ever known. There was no return of the attack, and the same day I did work incidental to housecleaning and spent some time on the top of a stepladder, hanging curtains.

I am very grateful to Mrs. Eddy for writing Science and Health. Except for the few statements that I remembered in her book, all existence seemed a blank to me in this experience, but I now realize that I had the rule of Truth to apply to the conditions of suffering and its attendant weakness, and that the rule of Truth thus applied did win, and quickly, the hardest battle with pain that I ever fought.—Kate D. Grant, Franklin, Pa.

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