Testimony of Healing March 31, 1923 Issue

About fifteen years ago, I was in great sorrow and...

Evelyn Newton

About fifteen years ago, I was in great sorrow and misery, having lost a favorite sister whom I loved more than anything else; and I was also very sick, with a serious operation to face. I had prayed for my loved one and for myself, but without any answer, as I thought, to my prayers; and I was constantly questioning, Can there be any God? I finally had given way to a sense of despair, and of being helpless and at the mercy of some evil power. One day, when I was longing to, and believing I should, go as the one I loved had gone, I decided it would be right for me to put my home in order before leaving it. I began to turn out cupboards, chests of drawers, and so on, tearing up letters and throwing away useless objects. Then, going to a bookcase, I started discarding old and worthless volumes, when my eye fell on a book called "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I recalled how it had been brought by some one to my home, seven years previously, for a relative who was ill. None of us had understood it, and it had been put away and forgotten.

As I held the book, the leaves fell over, and my eye caught the following passage (p. 394): "We should remember that Life is God, and that God is omnipotent." I stared at the words, spellbound, reading them again and again. They seemed to sink into my consciousness; and a realization came to me that this was the truth, for God is a God of life and, therefore, not a God of death and misery. I began to read the book, and continued till it grew too dark to see. A great and wonderful peace and joy filled my heart, for the terrible sense of loss, sorrow, anguish, and loneliness had gone. I could see and understand enough of God's law of life and love for His children to comprehend that my dear one was still living, seeing more of Life, and safe in God's great care; and so I was comforted and satisfied.

I went on reading Science and Health, night and day. I literally obeyed the words, "Take it, and eat it up." Everything to do with myself and daily life seemed of no account in the face of the all-absorbing fact that I had found God. A week or so later a faithful maid I had, protested seriously that I had ceased to take any care of myself. Nor had I for some time taken any of the medicines or other remedies prescribed for me by the specialist who had given the verdict that I should have to undergo an operation. The maid's remark made me suddenly remember I had lately felt no pain or trouble, and that this change had come while reading Science and Health. I was convinced that through the truth I had found, I never should suffer again from that trouble. I knew I was healed; and I answered, "I am never again going to take any medicine."

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