Testimony of Healing August 2, 1924 Issue

It is ten years since I first began the study of Christian Science,...

Grace Beszant

It is ten years since I first began the study of Christian Science, and I have been helped in so many ways that I hardly know where to begin. I was subject to attacks of sore throat, which were very frequent and would often last for a week. During the last ten years, since taking up the study of Christian Science, I have had but three attacks of this trouble, and each time it has been overcome in twenty-four hours by my own understanding of the truth.

Two healings, which occurred recently, I should especially like to tell about. One was the healing of influenza; the other, of great mental depression caused by the sudden passing on of one to whom I was deeply attached. The physical healing was almost instantaneous. About two hours after I had wired to a practitioner in London for treatment, every vestige of aching of the limbs disappeared, and I went on with my work as usual.

The mental trouble was not so quick in yielding; but I know now this was due to my own wrong thinking. The death which seemed to overwhelm every one with grief appeared so real just then that I could not clear my thought sufficiently to rise above it; and I had also forgotten to rejoice. Everything around me was so dark that there seemed nothing to rejoice over. I went on in this wretched condition for about a fortnight; then, one morning, when I was walking out alone, these words of Paul came to me: "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." The effect was wonderful; it seemed as though some great weight had been lifted from me, for this was the very thing I had allowed myself to be—overcome by this seeming evil. I resolved there and then that I would try to know that only God, good, exists. Also the faithful practitioner, who was so patiently helping me all that time, repeatedly told me to rejoice. I began to think of the good that had come to me through Christian Science, and I knew then that ingratitude to God had caused all this unhappiness. From that moment I tried to realize God's ever-presence, and to know Him as Life, Truth, and Love. As I did this, my thought, which before was chaotic, cleared gradually; and in two or three days I was able to carry out my duties in the usual way. This experience has taught me a lesson,—never to lose sight of God.

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