Testimony of Healing October 15, 1921 Issue

Although I have already had a testimony published, so...

Catherine Aller

Although I have already had a testimony published, so much has come to me in the way of further healing and blessing through Christian Science that I desire to write another.

Over a year ago, a relative came to visit me, bringing with her her two children, who had whooping cough, to which my little son had never been exposed. I did some work to protect the child, or rather to eradicate from thought the fear that he had to contract the disease. As the time drew near, however, when according to material belief the first symptoms should begin to appear, he began to manifest first one and then another. The mother of the two children pronounced it whooping cough, and for two days the claim seemed to continue with increasing violence. Then one night as I held him in my arms and declared the truth, as it seemed for the hundredth time, with all the earnestness of which I was capable, it became clear to me that since no material evidence of disease can make disease real, then all the time in which I had been apparently witnessing sickness there had been in reality no sickness present. Even while I still seemed to be holding a sick child in my arms, there was no sick child, and God's perfect and harmonious creation was right here and now present. I laid the child down on the bed with perfect assurance that all was well, and in the morning every symptom of the disease had disappeared. There was not even a slight cold evident.

On another occasion I was riding my horse at a gallop, when he suddenly swerved, lost his footing on a cement causeway, and fell to the ground, carrying me with him. I was thrown clear of the horse, but received he full force of the fall on one arm, injuring the elbow. As soon as I fell I began to know that accidents are unknown to the divine Mind, and I was able to get up at once, and led the horse home, a distance of several blocks. I was alone with my children, and I decided not to call in a doctor, either to set the arm if it were broken, or to tell me if it were a break or not. I felt sure that the truth was equal to meeting the entire need. I was not able to be up the next day, and for a few hours the belief of pain and discomfort seemed great, but in a few days I was able to lift my whole arm as high as my head, and to use the fingers a little. In a week I started on a camping trip, and it was only a short time before I was able to assist in all the work of the camp. For a while it seemed as if my arm were twisted out of shape, but I was convinced that since a realization of the truth that there never had been any accident in reality, and that all mental pictures of it were but "the stuff that dreams are made on," had been able to allay the suffering and give me strength and the use of the arm, it could meet this condition. A few days afterward I noticed that both arms were equally straight.

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