Testimony of Healing December 2, 1922 Issue

For years I have desired to write my testimony for our...

Mary Alexia Cusack

For years I have desired to write my testimony for our periodicals; but even to recount the joyful experiences of restoration to health which the knowledge of Christian Science has brought into my life, I have felt reluctant to open the dark pages of the past, with their false pictures, from which Truth has liberated me.

I was never really strong; and as long as I can remember there was always held over me the great fear that as I grew older I would develop consumption, my mother having passed away, at the age of twenty-five, of this disease; also my only brother, who had accompanied me to Australia in search of health in a better climate, passed away at the same age. The trouble did come to me; and no benefit was received from climatic change. Nine doctors pronounced my case hopeless. The condition had extended to the stomach and bowels; and there was also spinal trouble and diabetes. I would not overstate my woe; but for years I was practically looking into the grave.

In looking back, one sees the heart-breaking round of visiting one doctor after another; hope followed by disappointment; the experiments tried with drastic remedies; the continuous pain and suffering; cut off through this experience from association with others; never strong enough to do any normal work. And the saddest part is that with all this dire trouble there was not one spark of religious faith, but resentment for what I believed was God's action toward me. God's will meant to me then undeserved suffering and sorrow; for I was taught that all suffering came from God; and, consequently, for years I had not entered a church, nor even prayed. Prayer was to me a mockery, which had never brought alleviation from suffering to me or to my loved ones. How different with the teachings of Christian Science, whose God is, as the Scriptures declare, Love, who "doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men"!

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