Testimony of Healing October 9, 1920 Issue

In "Retrospection and Introspection" by Mrs. Eddy, we...

Louisa Cooke Don-Carlos

In "Retrospection and Introspection" by Mrs. Eddy, we read (p. 21), "The awakening from a false sense of life, substance, and mind in matter, is as yet imperfect; but for those lucid and enduring lessons of Love which tend to this result, I bless God." Whenever Christian Scientists are taunted with failure to make a demonstration of their Leader's teachings with that old cry of the rabble, "He saved others; himself he cannot save," I remember my early study of Mrs. Eddy's writings and quote the above paragraph.

The student of Christian Science who was overseas had every opportunity to test the practicability of his lessons in Mind healing. In a nine months' service as director of women in the Dauphiné Leave Area in the Y. M. C. A. I found my knowledge of the all-presence and the all-power of God a very present help in time of trouble. In the midst of a severe epidemic of influenza, the one other Scientist at our station and I were able to continue our severe and long labors of assisting in the care of twenty-five hundred men each week. Although constantly exposed to the rigors of an Alpine winter, living in buildings insufficiently heated, always overworked, with little time for sleep and no time for rest, we were able to keep going and to accomplish much for the health and happiness of our soldiers.

Stricken with the disease myself, I worked for a week in spite of an abnormal temperature, and then, with indications of severe illness, was compelled to make a forty-mile trip in an open car over the mountains to Aix, in the dead of winter. My coworker telegraphed to Paris to a practitioner for aid. I started on my journey, swathed in furs, amid the dire prediction of my friends. Arriving at my hotel, after three hours of exposure, I was put into a damp bed in an enormous room warmed only by a small wood fire, and commiserated by the companions of the journey as a very sick woman. I lay quietly and finally became warm and felt a sense of protection and of joy in the knowledge that this experience was another opportunity for proving God's power over every form of error. I slept, and awakened in six hours perfectly healed. All disfiguration and discoloration had left my face; all fever, cough, and discharge had vanished like a cloud in the rays of that Sun of righteousness that had arisen in my consciousness "with healing in his wings."

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