Testimony of Healing April 8, 1922 Issue

For a number of years I have studied Christian Science...

Mary C. McDonald

For a number of years I have studied Christian Science by means of the Bible and the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and the other works of that inspired woman. Little by little the discomforts and ills of inheritance such as temperament and bad circumstances,—all gods of "the carnal mind" referred to by Paul,—have disappeared, leaving me freer to grasp the higher thoughts of God and His creation. As the false gods of disease, poverty, accident, appeared on my mental horizon, I found that I could and did combat them with the "sword of the Spirit" to their downfall and my deliverance. For the last few weeks I have had more opportunity to ponder on the deeper things of God; and this reliance on God, this growing understanding of His omnipotence, was indeed my savior in a recent night of horror, when this city was shocked at the theater disaster.

With a friend I had gone to this theater, following a day of study and contemplation of God, and my thought was more on the things I had read than on the harmless pictures displayed on the screen. Then, with only slight warning, the whole roof of the theater came down upon us, carrying our balcony to the pit; but in that brief moment I was able to realize practically what my years of study of Christian Science had brought me,—that God is Life, ever present, All-in-all, and nothing could be present where I was but God. When I next sensed things about me, I found that I was indeed in God's presence, and that even the part of the roof which was pinching my body into the wreckage had no power to harm me. I was able to call to the rescuers above, and after about two hours I was released and could walk. Both my companion and I were able to walk out practically uninjured—the first ones who had been buried, to walk out unhurt. Bruises to the flesh and slight cuts on our heads were quickly healed. The shock and remembrance of the terrible sight has given place to the conviction that God is always present.

"I know that my redeemer liveth," and with the psalmist I can literally say, "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit." To God belongs all the glory for deliverance. To Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, belongs a gratitude that is entirely natural. I am directly indebted to her life of labor and love for the understanding of God that saved me from lapsing into the error of death at this time.—(Miss) Mary C. McDonald, Washington, D. C.

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