Testimony of Healing October 1, 1910 Issue

It has been a matter of self-reproach to me that I have...

Myra Williams Jarrell

It has been a matter of self-reproach to me that I have neglected public acknowledgment of the blessings which have been brought to me through Christian Science. It has been many years since I experienced my first healing, but it was only the loaves and fishes that I cared for then, and my gratitude went no farther than the admission that I had been helped. I was first healed, in two weeks, of a so-called chronic bowel ailment, said to be hereditary.

When my mother, in despair of any permanent help from medicine, arranged for treatment for me, she was not interested in Science, but she felt that nothing else would help me. With the arrogance of youth and my ignorance of Christian Science, I felt rather disgraced, and used to take the back streets to reach the practitioner's house. If, perchance, I met an acquaintance when I was about to enter, I walked on by, and after that first healing, I returned to Christian Science only when material remedies failed me. Once, after suffering agonies with a rheumatic affection, I sent for the practitioner, and experienced blessed and almost instantaneous relief.

For a year prior to my marriage, I had been unable to use my eyes to read, and this was a great deprivation to me. Two different eye specialists, one in my own city and one in another state, pronounced my trouble one which, combined with other difficulties, would make the use of glasses necessary for all time. Tumors formed on the inside of the lids, one following another within a few months, and both were removed by the knife. Finally, after giving glasses a trial, and becoming worse all the time, I went to Kansas City and consulted an oculist who was said to be the best one west of Chicago. At that time another tumor had appeared, which he said must be removed by an operation. He pronounced the same sentence upon me that the other two had, and fitted me with glasses, which he said I should have to wear always, and at all times. I was to return to him in a few weeks for the operation, but before the time came, I had turned again to Christian Science, and the same kind practitioner, who had been so patient with my ignorance, treated me. The tumor disappeared within a week, and I laid aside my glasses, never to resume them. That was about sixteen years ago, and my eyes have had constant, hard use, without any ill effects since then. It would seem that this would have made me a Christian Scientist, but though I bought the text-book, Science and Health, I was still clad in the garments of worldliness, and could not seem to understand it. I soon stopped trying to understand, often asserting that though I had been healed, I could never become interested in Christian Science.

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