Testimony of Healing February 22, 1913 Issue

I give this testimony with the hope that in some way my...

Adell Lonergan

I give this testimony with the hope that in some way my experience may help others. In 1908, looking back upon fifteen years of despairing invalidism, pain, and seemingly unbearable sorrow, I stood facing Christian Science, the key to liberty. I had thought much of God all my life, yet I got into this awful tangle because I made evil real. When, however, the truth was seen, I threw away all medicine, and waited and watched for the physical change to come; yet it came not, because I had not obeyed the command "to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." I could not see this as a necessity at that time, so the struggle went on, weeks drifting into months of clinging, doubting, and striving, my physical condition seemingly growing steadily worse.

One day, as I was suffering intensely, I called up my practitioner, and sent her a wave of self-pity, doubt, and fear. Like a shot from a cannon came back the answer, and the word of Truth penetrated deep into my sense, startling me out of self into God. The receiver was thrust into its place without a word, and I quivered as if I had been struck. I have, however, been deeply thankful ever since for this wound made by "the sword of the Spirit." I saw plainly that I must make a clear decision. This meant either to go back to materia medica, which had seemed to hold the pain in check so that I could endure it, or turn away and face what to my thought meant the awful fear of increasing pain and death. Before I emerged from the telephone booth I had repeated the words of Job, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him,"—with all that I was or all I ever hoped to be. In spite of this decision I grew steadily worse, new complications setting in; yet no "wavering" came to me, for I had made my decision forever, and I had no desire even to look back.

An experience which came soon after this showed me that my greatest need was to realize that when a definite choice is made between the spiritual and the material, the healing has really taken place. I did not at first understand this, but as a friend offered to help me, I accepted gladly, and in fifteen minutes I arose from the bed "ever whit whole." I was healed absolutely, and fearless of any return of the disease. I have been constantly employed since, and have had no sense of any of my former ills. I am always well, happy, fearless, glad, and free. I was at the same time healed of a great and seemingly hopeless sense of sorrow, almost despair. This has all been wiped out, and I have almost forgotten I ever grieved. My greatest joy comes to me through the knowledge that I can now help others, and I submit this testimony with the assurance that many will see the way to the healing power of Truth. In leaving behind us all belief in material means, we gain all true gifts,—life, health, strength, and peace.

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