Testimony of Healing January 29, 1921 Issue

It is with a heart full of gratitude for the many blessings...

Lucy M. Dyer

It is with a heart full of gratitude for the many blessings that have come to me and mine through the study and application of Christian Science, that I wish to testify to some of them through one of our periodicals, hoping that it will help others, as the testimonies of others have helped me many times. I was brought up in a Christian home, and became a member of a denominational church when I was quite a girl, but as years went by I found my religion did not bring peace and happiness so I turned my thought to worldly pleasures, and a number of years ago I laughed at what I thought Christian Science to be, as many others have done.

I had many severe sicknesses and seemed to recover only to have another even more severe. Six years ago I suffered from what the doctors called rheumatism and uric poisoning, and was pronounced incurable. I was a sufferer for months, and was confined in bed for over five months, with seemingly no hope. A friend came to see me when it was thought that I would pass away, and asked me why I did not try Christian Science. She said she knew nothing of it herself, but she had heard of a wonderful healing. I finally gave my consent and a practitioner was called, and that night for the first time in months I slept without opiates. In five weeks I was sitting up and in ten more I went to work. After a while doubt and discouragement seemed to hold sway, and I thought I should get well faster, so I turned to material remedies again. I went to an osteopath and after he had treated me for several months he told me he could do no more for me. Then I went to a masseur, who seemed to help me for a while, but only to be told the same thing,—that he could do no more. Then I turned, as have many others, to God absolutely, and went to work in earnest to search for "the pearl of great price," and every mortal law was proved untrue, for I am very far from being a helpless invalid. I do more work with less effort than I ever did before. The first healing, which seems wonderful to me now, was the clearing of one of my ears from the supposed effect of typhoid fever, that I had when a child, and there has been no return of this condition.

I should like to speak of another healing that means much to me, that is of hate, which caused suffering almost unendurable, but it has vanished, and in its place are love and compassion. My home has been transformed. Surely "man's extremity is God's opportunity." Many times I became discouraged and then I would realize that cross and crown are inseparable, and that I could not expect the prize before the race was run.

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