Testimony of Healing February 26, 1921 Issue

About the first healing I had in Christian Science was...

Jane M. Watson

About the first healing I had in Christian Science was of a very distressing case of stomach and bowel trouble which occurred after I had been studying for five months. For three days I struggled along, not knowing very clearly just what to do, but studied about seven or eight hours a day. At that time duty necessitated a walk of about two miles each day, which I was enabled to take. From the time I left home until I got back I kept mentally repeating the "scientific statement of being" from page 468 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation, and other statements from our textbook. On the third day of my seeming inharmony I had a strong desire for ice cream, but thought at first that it would not be the best thing to eat while in that condition; then I remembered something I had read about material things having no power over man. As I pondered this truth, fear was destroyed, and I went in and had the ice cream, and came out healed.

About one year later a similar condition was manifested, and I got relief in a day's time. Again, after the lapse of another year, the condition returned. This time I turned thought completely from my body to Mind as the one and only cause and knew there could not be a bad effect from a perfect cause; in so doing I was healed in half an hour, and have had no return of that condition. I was very grateful for that experience, for it proved what Mrs. Eddy says on page 217 of Science and Health: "What you have once conquered a diseased condition of the body through Mind, that condition never recurs, and you have won a point in Science." One day shortly after this, I was wondering why I had not been healed in half an hour the first time. The thought came that God's law was just as powerful then as at the last, but my understanding was not so clear.

While I am grateful for many physical healings, I am more grateful for the peace "which passeth all understanding," which results from the knowledge of what God is. I am grateful to Mrs. Eddy for giving "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" to the world, and also for the periodicals she established, which surely bless all mankind. I am grateful to all those who through the periodicals have helped me.—(Mrs.) Jane M. Watson, Fresno, California.

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