Testimony of Healing April 19, 1913 Issue

As long as I can remember I had suffered a great deal...

M. C. W. Merrihew

As long as I can remember I had suffered a great deal mentally because of a sensitive temperament, and this had brought on physical ailments. Disappointment seemed to lurk in every direction, because I was always looking for the realization of my ideal in the human sense of things. Conditions seemed to grow worse until, for some years before I found Christian Science, pain was my constant companion, and mental suffering had so impaired the faculty of applying myself and of remembering, that I could not tell at the end of a paragraph what I had read. A more utterly hopeless and discouraged person it would be hard to find; but I thought I must struggle on, because my little daughter needed her mother. This little daughter was my one comfort; but no words can tell how I suffered for fear something would happen to her. As a consequence, she manifested a very restless temperament, and we kept each other in a constant state of irritation.

I was suffering at this time from a constantly recurring throat trouble and an affection of the ear, together with persistent stomach and intestinal disorders. Besides all these, three crooked places in the spine, the result of an accident, caused much pain and almost unendurable headaches; and my eyes, which had troubled me many years, became much worse, a specialist saying that the medical profession knew no help for me, and that I was facing prospective blindness. With all this it became necessary at that time for me to earn a living. When Christian Science was presented to me, I was too hopeless to consider it, but consented to investigate in regard to placing my little daughter in the Sunday school, thinking that if she could find help it would make my burden that much lighter; so we attended the Sunday service. I did not understand much of what was said, but I felt the healing atmosphere of peace and trust. I was also divinely guided to a Wednesday evening meeting when I was suffering from an almost unbearable headache, and I grasped the words, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need" (Science and Health, p. 494). Trying to realize the import of these words after I had gone to bed, the pain was immediately overcome and I instantly fell asleep, to sleep until morning, a thing I had not done for months. I had proof of God's power, and so I began to have some treatments, and also to work as faithfully as possible myself. In less than a year my eyes were made whole, and gradually I have received healing for the other diseases.

It is indeed good to be free from the constant fears which make us liable to physical suffering; but nothing can suffice to voice the pæan of praise which wells up as we begin to understand that the only reality of being is God and His idea, forever unfolding in consciousness, and giving us freedom from and dominion over hate, anger, jealousy, worry, and a host of other fears. My little daughter and myself have been transformed in the light of Christian Science. We have found peace of mind, spiritual illumination, and therefore mental purity and physical health. The manifestation of divine Love is the realization of the ideal. We have also proved that Truth gives the only sure rule by which to work out the problem of supply.

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