Testimony of Healing June 29, 1912 Issue

I wish to tell my gladness for Christian Science

Florence McConnell

I wish to tell my gladness for Christian Science. I can truthfully say that I have never turned to it for aid without receiving what I asked. My little girl, who weighed but four and a half pounds when born, was a miserable, sickly child for two years. At that time I took up the study of Christian Science, and she began to improve steadily and has been healed of all the ills that so-called premature birth had seemed to fasten upon her. One ailment was a chronic bowel difficulty, but as I studied Science and Health that gradually passed away. I had before then done all that human love could do, but with no result. The child has also had many other healings in cases of colds, severe falls, etc., and she has been protected from all the so-called children's diseases even while exposed to them. From a stunted child she has grown into big, strong, healthy schoolgir, with a great love for the truth. Recently she said that the thing for which she was most thankful was having been taught that "divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need" (Science and Health, p. 494).

Christian Science is our mainstay, not only physically but morally and mentally. The joy which comes when the mists of sense are lifted and fresh understanding enlightens all my thoughts, far exceeds the material benefits, although I give divine Mind the glory for all. Even before I can, to mortal sense, see the answer to my prayer, I am glad that I can understand what Jesus meant when he said he knew that the Father had heard him and had answered him.

We have had many proofs of the truth of Christian Science. One afternoon I seemed to be threatened by a severe cold, which in former times had often overcome me. My head and body ached terribly. I treated myself, but seemed to grow only worse until bedtime. But I knew I had declared the truth about it, so there was nothing more for me to do but trust Truth, and in the morning every symptom was gone. There is never an hour that the reality of the truth which Mrs. Eddy has explained in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is not borne in on my consciousness, no matter what I am doing. But the one demonstration over the pride of mere learning, of intellectual attainment, is the cause of my greatest thanks. The struggle was long and hard. Since taking up Science I had gone back to college to study for a master's degree, thinking I could be of greater use in the world, in Science and in other ways, by doing so. For a year and a half I struggled. Mortal mind had to be torn up by the roots in its beliefs in mental psychology, etc. I nearly lost my eyesight; but who could doubt and end? The potent simplicity and confounding clearness of Mrs. Eddy's interpretation of the first commandment, "Thou shalt have one God, one Mind" (Science and Health, p. 301), uncovered so much error that it nearly swamped me. But God's promise that the waters should not overflow held true.

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