Testimony of Healing April 28, 1923 Issue

Christian Science has so entirely remade my life, in the...

Nora Condon

Christian Science has so entirely remade my life, in the thirteen years that I have been privileged to study it, that I hardly know how to express all that it means to me. Although I had always been very energetic, I had been constitutionally weak, and had been held all my life under two dark clouds of mortal fear. I was said to have inherited from both sides of my family a tendency to lung trouble, every relation, on both sides, having had consumption for two generations back. From the time I was nine or ten years old, I was supposed to be on the brink of going into consumption. I was constantly subject to the most dreadful colds, which always went to my lungs, and caused great fear. Besides this, as a girl of fifteen, I developed very bad rheumatic gout; and the prospect of certain crippledom from this complaint as I grew older was a living dread in my heart, and an accepted fact by all around me. It was supposed to be the greatest possible good fortune that my father's profession (he was a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service) took him to the East, and that I lived from seventeen years of age on, for some sixteen years or more, in an entirely dry climate, as the doctors said I must not attempt to spend a winter in England under any circumstances whatever. Then the circumstances of my home changed completely, and I found myself faced with the complete loss of all that I had ever known or loved. I had to leave my home and family, my friends, my pets, the country which I had learned to love so dearly, and come to England to make my way as best I could with very small means, with but one friend in the whole country, and with no relations. I had no hope, no prospects—nothing before me in that dark hour in my life!

It was at that moment that Christian Science came to me through this one friend. I had witnessed her healing from a so-called fatal form of heart disease, and had been reading the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, for a year before coming to England, but it was only in my extremity that I turned to it in earnest. In the year of almost complete solitude that followed, I read and studied this great and glorious revelation of Truth, which has since then, step by step, molded my whole life. Being so very badly off, I had to take what accommodation I could afford; and my first winter in England was lived in a house without fires, in an exceedingly damp and cold part of the country, in the utmost discomfort. It will be imagined how my old fears of lung trouble and rheumatism rushed in upon me. I asked for Christian Science treatment; and in a few weeks my fears had entirely disappeared, and with them all the trouble. Though that first winter my shoes and clothes were often damp when I put them on, I never had any trouble or pain; nor did I have any colds.

One instance of the completeness of my healing which I should like to give occurred when I was on a little sketching tour some years ago. I lost my luggage. As I expected my box to turn up daily, I bought nothing but the barest necessities. At night, therefore, when I went to bed, as I had no change of underclothes, I washed what I had been wearing and hung them out in the room. In the morning I put them on again, still wet. It was a very wet summer, and my one pair of shoes was squelching wet the whole time; yet during the fortnight that elapsed before my box was found I never suffered one twinge of rheumatism or had the faintest suspicion of a cold.

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