Testimony of Healing June 9, 1923 Issue

Just as the light comes to dispel darkness, so came...

Elizabeth Smith Easley

Just as the light comes to dispel darkness, so came Christian Science into my life about six years ago, when everything worth while seemed lost. My health, which had never been robust, completely failed; and although every attention had been given me by prominent physicians, and two operations, known to the medical fraternity as major operations, had been performed, the outlook remained dismal. After spending weeks in a hospital I was allowed to go home, later to be sent to a health resort to be treated for a serious nervous condition. After spending eight weeks away from home under the constant care of a specialist for nervous diseases, I was told that the condition was the result of the operations, and that medical skill could not relieve me. It seemed that everything was wrong with me at this time; and when I reached home again, it was with a heavy heart and many dismal forebodings. On the train I remembered that Christian Science had been offered to me several times by an older sister and by several friends; yet I had refused to accept it, or to listen to their pleadings that I try it.

One day, however, while talking with a Christian Scientist, I voiced some of my thoughts about God. She explained to me that God is Spirit, even as I had read in the Bible; and that man is spiritual; and because God is changeless and perfect, man, His image and likeness, is changeless and perfect. This was the most interesting thing I had ever heard about God and man. Soon after that conversation I was able to attend some Wednesday evening meetings, and the many earnest testimonies given there convinced me that I could be healed.

My first healing was the restoration of one of my eyes, which had been injured by a fall on the sharp prong of a towel rack. The accident, as well as the healing, was the means of a great revelation to me. It happened in the afternoon. I was alone in the house, and the pain and fear were terrible; but there was nothing for me to do except to try to pray. In trying to think of something to say, a line of a hymn I had heard at a Wednesday evening meeting was all I could remember: "Alone with Thee, amid the seeming shadows." When I became fully conscious again, the pain had gone. A sense of peace came over me; and while I believed my eye to be fatally injured, to my joy God did not seem afar off to me. While in this uplifted state of thought, my friend, the Christian Scientist, came in. She was surprised to see my plight, but did not seem at all dismayed. I talked more of the wonderful sense of peace that had come to me than I did of the acci-

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