Testimony of Healing July 13, 1907 Issue

Sometimes blessings come to us disguised as misfortunes....

Clara A. Orrill

Sometimes blessings come to us disguised as misfortunes. My long illness was the blessing in disguise to bring me into Christian Science. I was a business woman for eighteen years, and was at last driven out of my profession by sickness—a perfect wreck of my former self. I did not call upon many different physicians, for I felt that those I had employed were competent and I had great faith in them. They all, about five in number, agreed that I must have an operation or my home would be in an asylum. I believed what they said, but rather than submit to an operation I said I would live on as I was. I never believed that I would have to submit to an operation, or that it would be successful in curing me even if I did allow it, for my physician would offer no guarantee. I suffered from female trouble, with many attending disorders. The doctors thought this condition was brought on at childbirth, the two physicians in charge not attending me properly. During twenty-eight years I suffered, constantly growing worse, until my constitution seemed unable to bear the weight of suffering and disease any longer. During this term of years my husband paid out hundreds of dollars. He was utterly discouraged, and in despair he turned to Christian Science, having learned in his business relations of some persons who had been healed by it. When he mentioned it I exclaimed, "Why, are you demented? What do you know about Christian Science? I don't think that it is anything for you or for me." I said this because neither of us had any interest in Christianity. At last I consented simply because he asked me, not because I believed in it. I would have tried anything else just the same had he asked me.

Imagine my surprise, therefore, when after four days' treatment I was healed of bowel trouble for which I had taken almost every material remedy that was suggested to me during twenty-eight years. Of this relief from a disease which I had never expected could be cured, I did not then speak. At dinner one day I noticed my husband and mother watching me. "Why in the world are you watching me so closely?" I asked. My husband replied, "You are so much like your old self that I cannot keep my eyes off you." My healing was not instantaneous, but rapid. After five weeks' treatment, which cost but twenty-five dollars, I was completely healed of all my ailments. I have often heard it said that Christian Science is good for nervous people. Now my experience is that "nervousness" is of such a nature that material remedies cannot reach it. I feel very kindly toward the physicians I have employed, and know they did all they could; but to be healed in five weeks by Christian Science (what doctors had failed to do during many years) certainly proved to me that Christian Science is something above and beyond material knowledge.

The more I study Christian Science the more beautiful and true it becomes to me. We prove it by living it. I have been so blessed through my healing that the whole world seems new. All I am and all I expect to be I owe to Christian Science. I am no more like my former self than if I were another person, and my friends all remark about it. My likes are all changed,—the things I used to love are now a task instead of a pleasure. I am very grateful to Mrs. Eddy, whose wisdom and love has established Christian healing in this age. It would not be natural or just to withhold gratitude to her. This demonstration is hers, not mine.—Clara A. Orrill, Manchester, N. H.

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