Testimony of Healing August 8, 1925 Issue

Yielding to the persuasion of a friend, just to please her...

Grace Greenwood Isaacs

Yielding to the persuasion of a friend, just to please her I called upon a Christian Science practitioner to ask some questions about Christian Science. Though I had been a semi-invalid for years, the result of a railway accident, I had no thought that Christian Science would heal me. I did not go seeking physical healing, as I thought, but to know something of what had healed my friends. I had read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, in a desultory sort of way. I said I was studying it, but I know now that I was taking it just as a "daily pill." For years I had carried about with me, if I went from home overnight, a drug to quiet sudden attacks of pain; and I was now advised that physicians said its continued use would be dangerous. When I appealed to Christian Science with the next attack and was relieved of the pain in less time than by the drug, the latter had no further interest for me. Chronic tonsillitis was overcome in twentyfour hours. But still I did not realize what had been done for me, and I continued to do everything but really study to get an understanding of this wonderful truth for myself. I traveled and tried to amuse myself: I was not grateful.

Finally a time came when all the world seemed to have slipped from under foot, and again man's extremity was God's opportunity. Although the temptation to give up Christian Science came, Truth triumphed. The journey has seemed slow, but the way brightens every day. Of course, it is a constant overcoming; but I find a joyousness about it now, because I can see progress and begin to glimpse what our Leader meant when she said (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 118), "The warfare with one's self is grand." After those first healings other claims were slower to yield; and one lifelong fear recurred again and again, although I felt the Science work had been done, until I could laugh at the symptoms, knowing their unreality because God did not make any such thing; and then they silently slipped away.

Christian Science is proving to me that home is everywhere, that we can sustain no loss when we trust all our interests to divine Love, and that only enemy is the obstinacy of the human mind. I am cheered in remembering how Mrs. Eddy pressed on, undeterred by any seeming, knowing good to be the only power.

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