Testimony of Healing September 30, 1911 Issue

While I was pondering the words, "Having done all, to...

Lulu B. Espy

While I was pondering the words, "Having done all, to stand," the thought came to me that I had left one thing undone in never having taken the pains to make some record of the great blessings which Christian Science has brought to me, for the possible help of others. When I first heard of this teaching, in 1889, I had been an invalid for ten years or more, confined to my room much of the time, suffering from what had been diagnosed as two incurable diseases by the many physicians I had tried. There were then no Scientists where I was living, and I did not know that absent treatment was possible, but I sent for a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, with the thought that if Christian Science had healed others, it would heal me also. The first time I read through that wonderful book I understood very little of its meaning, but as I went on studying I began to see that my body was but the reflection of my thought, and as my thought changed my body would change. This perception gave me peace, and then, as the mental and spiritual unrest and hunger disappeared before a better understanding of Christian Science, their bodily effects began to leave me.

At once I spoke to different friends about Science, and interested a few. From time to time friends would ask me to help them, telling me of their ailments. Then the suggestions would pour in that I could not help any one with Science; that it was absurd for me to pretend to work for others. But of the two voices which so often argue to us, the better impulse to do at least all that I could would prevail, and I was enabled to do what was asked of me, until gradually it came about that I was perfectly healed, was well and stronger than I had ever been in my life before, and I always felt that the effort to help others had greatly blessed me and hastened my own healing.

Some years after this I was thrown with great force from my bicycle, falling on one elbow against the concrete pavement. The pain seemed severe, but Truth was there to help me and I was enabled at once to declare the supremacy of God and His law,—that under divine government no accidents and no injury can occur; and I was able to remount my wheel and reach home without suffering. Later the pain returned, there was a dislocation, and the appearance was so alarming that a young Scientist who was with me offered to go for a surgeon. She did so, and not finding him went for another, who was also out. Then it seemed to me only right that Truth should finish what it had begun. With some help from a friend in Science I battled with and overcame the numerous suggestions about a deformed arm, etc., for I could use my arm but little for two or three weeks, and could not control the movements of the hand, as often it would turn in one direction when I tried to turn it in another. I am, however, most grateful to say that the healing was perfect, so complete that now I find it difficult to tell which arm was injured.

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