Testimony of Healing June 8, 1907 Issue

I am a graduate from the Hahnemann Medical College...

Priscilla G. Myers

I am a graduate from the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. After several years of practice my health failed, and this finally ended in nervous prostration. My usual health could not be regained. Complicated conditions presented themselves which terminated in what were pronounced incurable diseases. I received no encouragement from specialists whom I consulted; change of climate was recommended and cessation from mental work. With this haunting spectacle before me, all ambition had to go; I gave up my home, my practice, and sought change of climate and work. Only a few of my intimate friends knew what a sufferer I was, for I was never free from pain. I had heart disease from which I never expected to be cured; and as the result of a fall an abnormal growth of the spine, which the surgeon advised me to have removed, at the same time expressing fear of serious results. For two years I was on a strict diet on account of intestinal trouble, and had a constant pain, which a specialist told me that nothing but the knife could help to diagnose correctly. For as much as ten years I was subject to the most excruciating pain, and suffered from sleeplesness. There were also minor troubles, in fact every organ of my body seemed affected.

After four years of travel, and change, with scarcely any benefit, a sorrow came to me which threw me into the depths of despondency. While in a desperate state of mental and physical suffering, the thought came to me very forcibly to try Christian Science. I might say here, that when I first broke down in health I tried to become interested in it, but could not—it did not appeal to me at all. From girlhood my life had been spent with drugs and diseases, the drugs seeming indispensable and the diseases so very real to my mortal sense that to interest myself in the Science seemed absurd indeed; but at this particular time which I have mentioned, the thought would not leave me that now was my time to take up Christian Science.

The first book I succeeded in getting from the public library was "Miscellaneous Writings." I cannot tell how eagerly I searched those pages so full of love and hope—how I longed and hungered for rest and peace. I became so absorbed in its contents that I lost all sense of time, of sorrow, of pain. The Comforter came with the joy, peace, happiness, and contentment that do indeed surpass all human understanding. God was in deed and in fact the "great Physician." The illumination which came to my consciousness at this great transformation—the dissolving of diseases into their native nothingness—was proof that Mrs. Eddy had discovered the everlasting Truth. In my medical practice and from clinical observation, in my inability to restore to health the patients who had seemingly fatal diseases and in my complete failure to cure myself, even after consulting with the best physicians, I was awakened more and more to the full realization of the limitation, yes, the utter failure of medicine to offer a real curative, and could I do otherwise than appreciate the healing power of Christian Science? And who in Science has not learned that the physical healing is but a small part when compared with the spiritual understanding and regeneration which it brings. As I began the practice of Christian Science regardless of my own beautiful physical healing, my great difficulty was to unsee mentally the diseases of patients; nevertheless, I placed the "high goal" (Science and Health, p. 426) before me and struggled on, and I have been wonderfully blessed by proofs of God's presence and guidance in my work.

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