Testimony of Healing September 24, 1927 Issue

One morning, several years ago, I telephoned to a friend...

Adèle C. Shreve

One morning, several years ago, I telephoned to a friend who is a Christian Scientist, and said to her: "You are the only person I know who never seems to be afraid. I am frightened, and I want to know what to do!" I then explained to her that in addition to my having been confronted by many phases of human discord, one of my dearest friends was dangerously ill in a distant state, and I too was suffering from an extremely painful physical difficulty for which a physician had just told me that surgery would be the only remedy. My friend's loving and prompt reply to me was, "Read the ninety-first and twenty-third psalms, and I will help you."

I had a feeling of disappointment—the remedy seemed so intangible for such an apparently tangible array of misfortune; but I got out my unused Bible and began to read. Before the morning had passed I had read every one of the psalms, and each one glowed with a promise that I had never before sensed. I then remembered that a few years before, under an impulse of intellectual curiosity, I had bought a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, but had never read it. I found the precious volume, and for three days the book was hardly ever out of my hands; and at night I had it under my pillow, so that I could read it in my wakeful moments. On the morning of the fourth day a telegram announced that the crisis of my friend's illness was past; and I myself was free from pain. I did not understand at the time that I had experienced a healing in Christian Science, but I did realize that my whole terrified outlook upon life had been changed. I then began to study Christian Science in earnest, and I have no words with which to express my gratitude for each opportunity I have had to prove its truth.

Since that first wonderful realization of the presence and availability of divine Love, every physical difficulty of mine, of my husband, and of our four children has been perfectly met in Christian Science. Through the loving work of a practitioner we were able to realize for one of the children the unreality of a frequently fatal disease which under other treatment almost invariably leaves permanent deleterious effects. For complete and perfect deliverance from this form of error I am unable to voice sufficient gratitude; and as I look back upon that period when I was required to stand upon what I knew of Truth, I find that even the memory of the error is fading, and a feeling of having been alone with God is uppermost in my thought. I want to express my gratitude for the unwavering understanding of the practitioner who helped us through this testing time. And I am truly grateful for every experience which strengthens the knowledge that, beyond the shadow of a doubt, there is an harmonious solution to every human problem, which is bound to be manifested by knowing more of Truth.

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