Testimony of Healing October 6, 1923 Issue

A dear relative was healed instantaneously through...

Muriel Nelson

A dear relative was healed instantaneously through Christian Science treatment. I was a child of thirteen at the time, and had often helped to wheel the chair in which she was taken out; so that when she walked alone to our house and told me that God had healed her, I just knew it was true. I saw and believed. Though I did not realize it then, I know now that my own healing of a tuberculous joint began at that time. Although I had to use crutches for a time, and for many years had a noticeable limp, this has been perfectly healed.

I began to study the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, four years later in earnest, hoping to help my father. He passed on suddenly, as did also my sister and a dear little niece. These were terrible blows to me, but I knew that there was comfort if I only sought it. For three months I read nothing but Science and Health, seeking healing from grief and insomnia. I was healed of these, as well as of anaemia, severe colds, and chilblains. These experiences proved to me that Christian Science is indeed the method of Christian healing, and I longed to know more of this practical truth. During the years that followed I found that progress was in proportion to the sincerity of my desire for holiness.

The same relative who brought Christian Science into my life has helped me most lovingly through many difficult periods since. School examinations were successfully passed two years earlier than was expected owing to my long absences from school. At the age of twenty-one I obtained a post as head teacher of a country school. This school was in a very backward condition, and had not received any grant from the Board of Education for some years. When the county inspector came to see me, he said that neither he nor the committee knew why they had appointed one so young to the position; but they felt that my application was the one they must accept. This was only another opportunity for me to rejoice in the knowledge that divine Mind governs all our affairs, when we understand how to rely on God. The inspector also said, "Of course you will not be able to get the school up to normal standard under three years." I mentally denied this at once, and went to school every morning striving to know that God's children always express Him, reflecting the one divine intelligence, and to shut out of my thinking the material evidence of neglected and backward children. This was proved to be true, for under the year the school was pronounced normal by His Majesty's inspector; and at the end of three years the report stated that this school was fast becoming one of the first village schools in the county. During those years I learned many lessons; and I am most deeply grateful for that opportunity of proving what blessings accure from the earnest striving to practice Christian Science in daily life.

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