Testimony of Healing January 22, 1927 Issue

It is with feelings of deepest gratitude that I desire to...

Louise O. Chizlett with contributions from Ralph F. Des Granges

It is with feelings of deepest gratitude that I desire to testify to the great blessings that have come to me through the study of Christian Science. The greatest blessing it has given me is "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding," and it has led me into "the fear of the Lord" or reverential trust in the Lord, which is "the beginning of wisdom." It has taught me to rely always upon divine Mind's government, in which is no inharmony or discord. This truth destroyed in me a great fear of hereditary suffering, with which I was tormented for years, as I came of a family of which many members had suffered acutely from some of the worst forms of neuralgia and rheumatism, my father, particularly, having been quite a martyr to neuralgia for ten years. During one of these attacks he seldom spoke, writing everything he wanted on a slate. Although he became better, he was never quite free from occasional attacks. As I was supposed to take after him in nearly everything, I was haunted by a fear of inheriting his sufferings; and as I often suffered from bad nervous headaches, I had a dread that these headaches might be the beginning of neuralgic trouble.

I was never without menthol, always carrying it about with me, and sleeping with it under my pillow. Fear was a constant torment to me until I began to learn in Christian Science of the real man: that man is the image of God, Spirit, God's spiritual idea, which nothing can separate from Him. Mrs. Eddy says in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 228): "Heredity is a prolific subject for mortal belief to pin theories upon; but if we learn that nothing is real but the right, we shall have no dangerous inheritances, and fleshly ills will disappear;" and on pages 412 and 413, "The Scientist knows that there can be no hereditary disease, since matter is not intelligent and cannot transmit good or evil intelligence to man, and God, the only Mind, does not produce pain in matter." These and the eighteenth chapter of Ezekiel, from verse nineteen to the end, have quite destroyed in me any fear of inheriting any family trouble, and I rejoice in this freedom. I also learned from our textbook (p. 167) that "our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence,—our health, our longevity, and our Christianity."

I should also like to tell of a demonstration I had of the power of Truth to destroy the belief of a bad scalding. A short time ago I was making marmalade and boiling it on a Primus lamp. It seemed to be boiling nicely, so I went to the other side of the room. While attending to something there, I heard a sound of dripping, and looking around, I saw that the great heat of the lamp had caused the mass to boil over. It was too heavy to lift off, so I knew the only thing to do was to unscrew the lamp so that the flame would go out. I also knew that to do this I must, of necessity, put my hand under the boiling jam. This I did quite fearlessly, declaring the truth that matter has no sensation and that no scalding could hurt God's spiritual child. My joy and gratitude were unbounded when I was able to put out the lamp and wipe the boiling jam off my hand without one second of pain being experienced. The truth realized had made me free from every suggestion of scalding.

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