Testimony of Healing March 26, 1921 Issue

For many years before taking up the study of Christian Science...

Mary B. Hale

For many years before taking up the study of Christian Science I was under the care of specialists both on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, and finally went to Europe in search of health. The specialists decided that nothing but a capital operation could possible restore me to health. Being very much averse to undergoing an operation, and there being grave doubts as to my having sufficient strength to survive one, I determined not to submit to it but simply to keep myself as comfortable as possible.

Returning to my home in California, and being much of the time confined to my bed, there seemed nothing before me but days of invalidism. When in this condition a great sorrow came into my life and the prostration which followed seemed complete, for I was unable to leave my room for four months. At the end of this time the earnest study of Christian Science was begun. Not having benefited by years of treatment under materia medica, I declared my intention of giving Christian Science a faithful trial, and, before deciding its value to me, of studying it as diligently as one would any other branch of learning for one year—provided I lived that length of time. It was, however, but a comparatively short time before the conviction came that the Principle of Christian Science was something which could be made practicable throughout all eternity and which, if one really gained a thorough understanding of it, could never be set aside.

Since then, about twelve years ago, no medicine or material remedies of any kind have been resorted to, nor was it ever necessary to perform an operation. I have found Mrs. Eddy's admonition on page 454 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" to be most helpful: "Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept;" also the statement on page 254 of the same book, "When we wait patiently on God and seek Truth righteously, He directs our path." My improvement seemed very slow, but I gained steadily, until once more I had the ability to express activities which for many years had been relinquished. Walking, riding, dancing, and even skating which I had never before learned, became pleasurable to me.

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