Testimony of Healing December 4, 1926 Issue

Before I came into Christian Science the Bible had no...

Maud O'Brien

Before I came into Christian Science the Bible had no interest for me, but after I started to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy it became my constant companion; and, having experienced so often the healing power of the Word of God understood, I should like to express my gratitude to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for her teachings, and especially for the love they awaken in us for the Bible. The following experience will, I hope, help some who may still be afraid to trust wholly to Truth when far away from human help and in great physical distress.

Through I had experienced many healings, among others that of bad eyesight, I was still very seriously ill with a condition which caused much fear, and which made me hesitate to leave London or be out of reach of the help of a practitioner. However, the opportunity came to overcome this fear. I had gone to the west of England to a farm eight miles from a town and five miles from a telegraph office, when I was taken ill with a very dangerous condition, a London doctor having warned me once before that it might result in instantaneous death. The pain was intense. A relative and his daughter who were very antagonistic to Christian Science were with me at the time, and I had to keep silent, knowing that a doctor would be sent for, were the condition known. All the evidence of the senses seemed against recovery, and my relative was describing the death of his sister, which had just taken place from a cause very similar.

Just when despair tried to overwhelm me, the following words of Ezekiel came clearly to my thought: "I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye," and those of Mrs. Eddy in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 83): "No person can accept another's belief, except it be with the consent of his own belief. If the error which knocks at the door of your own thought originated in another's mind, you are a free moral agent to reject or to accept this error; hence, you are the arbiter of your own fate." I saw so clearly at that moment that this was not a physical condition, but a state of intense fear, that I was able to turn right away from the body, and to fill my thought with the certainty that in reality there is no such thing as death, and that no condition, either physical or mental, can be solved by dying. The pain lessened, and I was soon free, although later in London there was a slight relapse. This was, however, soon overcome, and there has never been any return of the old condition, though the healing occurred about thirteen years ago.

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