Testimony of Healing June 11, 1921 Issue

When Christian Science was first mentioned...

ELIZABETH STEVENSON

When Christian Science was first mentioned to me, about twenty-five years ago, I was in fairly good health, and although I had never been considered very strong, I thought I had no need of Christian Science. Some years later, when my health failed, I took up the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, not on account of my own condition but in search of healing for another. I went to see a practitioner two or three times a week and to my surprise I found my own condition constantly improving and I was healed slowly but surely. Then came the desire to have my friends and members of my family accept the truth, but I found it was necessary to let each one seek the truth in his own way, and that an effort on my part was in reality only hindering. One of the lessons I had to learn was patience, and patience had been beautifully rewarded. I am daily learning to cast out of my thought the sins of fear, hate, malice, self-love, selfishness, and resentment, and to have more of that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus" and to see my brother man as I want to be seen.

When our son was a lad about eight years of age, while playing with other children in the top of the barn he made a misstep and fell headfirst to the cobblestone approach to the barn. The children came running to the house saying that he had been killed, and when my husband picked him up the child seemed to be unconscious. A great fear seized me, as there had been considerable opposition to Christian Science in the little town in which we then lived, and it was necessary for me first to cast fear out of my own thought. When that was done the child's eyelids began to quiver and he soon opened his eyes; then work was taken up for him. One of the things that came to my thought was this: Had it been a stick of wood that had fallen, no one would have given it a moment's thought, and in reality the body is as material as a stick of wood, and that being true there was nothing to cause fear in my own thought or in the thought of my neighbors; also the words of Mrs. Eddy, "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony" (Science and Health, p. 424). This occurred on a Saturday afternoon and the following Monday the boy went to school perfectly well and without the least discoloration of the flesh.

It is with a great sense of joy that I add this testimony of my gratitude for Christian Science to the many given weekly and monthly in our periodicals, which are carrying the message of Truth to all the world.

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