Testimony of Healing May 8, 1915 Issue

Several years ago, while I was studying at the university...

Mabel Kelly

Several years ago, while I was studying at the university in Oxford, England, with some American friends who were Christian Scientists, my physical condition, never strong, grew worse, until I finally came to the conclusion that I would have to return home or seek relief in the warmer climate of southern Italy. Knowing my friends had great faith in Christian Science, I hesitated to say that on account of my health I would have to leave them, lest they should recommend that I have treatment, and this I did not want to do, so I postponed my decision from day to day.

After three months of concealed misery I knew I could not go on longer in that way. I would have to leave my friends and let them think that I wanted to leave them, or if I went without trying Christian Science, that I considered them foolish for relying on it. I had the most intense distaste for what I thought this teaching to be, and the mental struggle was fierce until a "still small voice" whispered "obstinacy." Relieved to find something I could meet, I knew that if obstinacy had anything to do with my reluctance I should and could settle that at once, and within an hour I was on my way to the home of a Christian Science practitioner. As I went I planned to depart from England the last of the week, feeling that now I could go without hurting my friends; the thought that I might be helped was not entertained at all. In spite of this, I was helped immediately, and with the physical freedom came the inward assurance that God was the healer.

I was astonished beyond words that there should be so much more to Christian Science than the wisdom of the world had credited. In three days I was cured of chronic ailments, backache, bowel disorder, and kidney trouble, whereupon I began the study of Science and Health. This turned me at once to the Bible, and with the reading of the well-known verse beginning, "No man can serve two masters," the spiritual interpretation came like a shining light, the assurance that the Bible was and always has been true, that Jesus meant exactly what he said. This could only mean that the world for centuries had failed to interpret him aright,—an almost incredible fact, but I felt it to be undeniably true in the light of proof and revelation. Absolute reliance on the understanding of God, spiritual power, to overcome material conditions, I saw to be not only possible but imperative, here and now.

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