Testimony of Healing October 2, 1920 Issue

Of the efficacy of Christian Science I have had many...

Lilian M. Allen

Of the efficacy of Christian Science I have had many proofs during the years since I accepted its teaching and regulated my experiences according to my understanding of Principle. My first healing, the result of my own application of Christian Science to what appeared to be a stubborn condition, occurred when I was fourteen years of age, and served to establish firmly for me the fact that Christian Science heals.

The operation of law in mathematics, physics, and astronomy interested me always, and to go one step farther and acknowledge the basic law of true thinking itself to be Mind or Principle was simple and demonstrable. My university course but emphasized the value and utility of Christian Science, revealing what a priceless gift is the ability to reason from the standpoint of Principle instead of listening to the dissertations of human opinions, as incorrect as they are plausible. At the end of the four years I knew that I had the real "Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world," and in all the intervening years my faith in and my allegiance to Christian Science have never swerved. My children were born under its kindly and efficient ministrations, without the presence of a physician, and without suffering. Grown now almost to manhood and womanhood, yet, save for an occasional vaccination, they have never had medical treatment of any sort, nor have they been inconvenienced by disregarding the so-called health laws of mortal mind, the penalty for which is often sickness and death.

Adenoids, rheumatism, hemorrhoids, blood poisoning, have been disposed of successfully, by their elimination even as supposed reality, presence, or power. Minor disorders have appeared, only to vanish at the first statement of Truth. Furthermore, I know that disease, accidents, and wrongdoing have been averted through the continuous activity of correct thinking and as the consequent of right desire—which desire Mrs. Eddy calls "prayer."

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