Testimony of Healing May 16, 1925 Issue

In the latter part of the year 1910, I had a complete...

Lucy C. Hurd

In the latter part of the year 1910, I had a complete breakdown in health. I had been suffering more or less for years previous to this from so-called neuritis, low blood pressure, and a complication of organic diseases. I continually took medicine and treatment from different kinds of physicians, but gradually grew more frail until the collapse came.

A year or so before this my attention was attracted to Christian Science through the healing of the little daughter of a friend. The mother often remarked that this child was by far the healthiest member of her family, and the little girl was often called "Sunshine" because she radiated so much joy and happiness. This child's healing made a deep impression on me, and through all my afflictions it seemed to sustain me and hold out hope, when hope in everything else had ceased to survive. At that time this little girl was the only member of her family who was interested in or who knew anything at all about Christian Science, so I questioned her about her wonderful healing; and in a simple, childlike way she explained to me that God did not send sickness and trouble on people, and said that if I would get a Christian Science practitioner to help me the practitioner would pray for me and I would be healed. She gave me her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, to look over; but on account of my thought being so filled with physical health laws, theories of germs, microbes, and mental pictures of the physical diagnoses of diseases, I did not understand what I read there. However, I decided to have Christian Science treatment.

I was helped wonderfully from the very first treatment. It gave me great physical relief, and a sweet sense of peace, hope, and gladness that I had not felt for months. Through the practitioner's faithful and compassionate help, and her clear explanations of Christian Science, the truth about spiritual existence rapidly dawned in my thought, and I began to lose the thought of myself as material and to gain a truer sense of my spiritual selfhood. I found I had believed in a selfhood apart from God; and when I let go of this false sense of existence with all of its so-called laws and remedies, the light of Life, Truth, and Love flooded my consciousness, and I was healed.

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