Testimony of Healing December 1, 1923 Issue

I have been interested in Christian Science for over...

Roy J. Bell

I have been interested in Christian Science for over twenty years, and have had many proofs during that time of its healing and redeeming power. I have been healed of severe stomach trouble, a tendency to bilious headaches, frequent severe colds, and many minor ailments, besides having been marvelously directed and led through financial difficulties on many occasions. These physical troubles were slow in yielding, and disappeared only as study and application of Christian Science elevated and spiritualized thought.

I whish to relate more in detail an experience I had some two years ago, wherein the healing was so complete as to be most convincing and inspiring. I was awakened one night by a most excruciating pain in the lower part of my back and abdomen. My wife and I spent the remainder of the night working in Science, and reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. By morning, the trouble was sufficiently overcome for me to go to work, although I felt weak and was still suffering. These severe attacks continued at irregular intervals of from a few hours to several days, for two weeks or more. Several times they occurred during the day, and I was then compelled to go home from work. Altogether I lost several days from my business. During these severe attacks the pain was so great that I could not lie down, sit, or stand quietly. However, I was mentally clear, and able to work for myself mentally as we are taught to do in Christian Science. I audibly and vehemently declared the truth for an hour or more each time, until the pain subsided. After each attack I had a great sense of gratitude for the experience, because it had spurred me on to a greater effort to grasp the truth of Christian Science and thereby become a better man.

Finally, it was suggested that the trouble was gallstones; and I immediately took the Concordances and looked up all Mrs. Eddy says about dissolving error. The following paragraph on page 242 of Science and Health especially appealed to me: "Self-love is more opaque than a solid body. In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissovle with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error,—self-will, self-justification, and self-love,—which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death." In pondering these words I saw that the error was entirely in my consciousness, not in my body. I became so interested in the realization that the "universal solvent of Love" could dissolve the errors of self-will and self-love, which had caused me so many unhappy experiences, and which we are wont to excuse as inherited traits, either to be more or less proud of or to be condoned, that I completely forgot the physical disorder. I went to the office that morning with a song of rejoicing in my heart. This realization of the presence and availability of infinite Love to make me more loving, kind, and patient with my fellow-men remained with me all that day and the next. Several days later I suddenly realized that I had not had one of those attacks since that morning, and that the other, lighter pains, which had been continuous since the first attack, had entirely disappeared. The "universal solvent of Love" had dissolved the false material claim, and nothing remained for mortal sense to argue must be cut out.

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