Testimony of Healing August 18, 1923 Issue

Some years ago, when suffering from a physical disorder...

Gertrude J. McPherson

Some years ago, when suffering from a physical disorder of many years' standing,—a disorder so pronounced that physicians and surgeons of several cities told me I could be cured only by a surgical operation, and held out no promise of a permanent cure, even then,—I went to a Christian Science practitioner. It was my first experience, and I explained the situation to her carefully, adding: "Of course I do not expect to be healed at once; that would be impossible in a case where the discord has been present so many years; I am willing to be patient if it takes many months, if only you think you can heal me." She smiled quietly, and said, "Why should it take many months?" And then she repeated to me that beautiful metaphor which is familiar to many students of Christian Science: "If two houses side by side were closed tightly, the one for ten years and the other for ten months, and if both were thrown open to the light and air at once, would not the sun flood the one just as quickly as the other?" It was a revelation to me. It is needless to say that the healing came at once. The door of Truth was opened to me then, and the sunshine of divine Love so flooded my consciousness that the beautiful vista I beheld through the open door made me long to pass through and enter the garden of peace and harmony beyond. For some weeks I stood upon the threshold with the wonderful vision ever before, not quite daring to take the step. Now I rejoice that the door is closed—behind me—securely closed; and I know that I shall never require to retrace my steps and reenter the portals, on the other side of which are the dark clouds of error and unbelief.

It is my great wish that I may take others by the hand and lead them along this bright pathway; and my daily prayer is that I may so live that I may more and more reflect the Love that is God.

(Mrs.) Gertrude J. McPherson, Washington, D. C.

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