Testimony of Healing January 8, 1921 Issue

When "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

Kathryn F. Brady

When "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy was placed in my hands, ten years ago, I was not at all interested in it, but in glancing through it I read a sentence which impressed me as a very positive and powerful statement. The book was then laid aside until some months later, when I was suffering from a very severe headache, and, no medicine being available, the thought came to me that if I could find that statement which I had read, it might help. In spite of the argument that I did not know in which chapter or on what page I had read it, and that I would not be able to read it if I did find it, I persisted, got up, found the book and opened it to the very statement I sought, which is on page 14 of Science and Health, where Mrs. Eddy says: "Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual,—neither in nor of matter,—and the body will then utter no complaints. If suffering from a belief in sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well." I read the statement several times, trying to realize its meaning, and in a very short time was completely healed.

Since that time I have had many blessings and healings, but I am most grateful for the healing of appetite, an ungovernable temper, hatred, malice, jealousy, sensitiveness, and the like, and while there is much room for further improvement I am sure it will come if I put into practice what I know of Christian Science. One very beautiful proof of the power of Truth which I have experienced is that of the destruction of discord in the home. This error seemed rampant, but not until I realized that it was my acceptance of a false concept of my fellow man, and my own wrong thinking which needed healing, and ceased to try to adjust the lives of others and turned the searchlight within, did the healing take place; but I can say that all inharmony has been healed beyond my highest expectations. The statement from Science and Health, beginning on page 476: "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick," and the following from "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 277): "No evidence before the material senses can close my eyes to the scientific proof that God, good, is supreme. Though clouds are round about Him, the divine justice and judgment are enthroned. Love is especially near in times of hate, and never so near as when one can be just amid lawlessness, and render good for evil," were my support in the hours of trial.

The Bible has become a new book to me, and instead of depending upon human will, I now turn to it and there find the needed help. Not long ago a condition arose upon which I had to take a stand. There was much pressure brought to bear to try to make me see that the stand I had taken was the one which would only add to the error which had to be overcome. Before opening my Bible I earnestly prayed that I would be shown whether these arguments were coming to turn me from the right way, and opened it to these words, in the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah, "All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?" With these words came a sense of peace, and I knew that the stand I had taken was the right one—and that I could fearlessly turn away from these arguments, and know that they were only the voice of error trying to destroy the right idea.

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