Testimony of Healing October 20, 1928 Issue

When first Christian Science was brought to my notice...

Annie J. Gilbert-Cooper

When first Christian Science was brought to my notice, through letters on the subject in one of the English daily newspapers, I was suffering from nervous exhaustion. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy seemed difficult for me to understand, except the chapter on Prayer, which appealed to me very much. The way for a long time seemed dark, and there were many severe mental struggles: there seemed to be much error to be destroyed. Although at times I put the book away for a week or two, something always drew me back to it. The healing has been very slow, to material sense; but now I can say I am grateful for this, as it has kept me studying and working to realize the truth. I have been healed twice, instantaneously, when stung by a wasp.

In 1924, when sitting in the stadium at Wembley, London, England, and in a slight breeze which was blowing in my direction, directly behind someone who was smoking a pipe vigorously, I suddenly felt as if my right eye were a ball of liquid fire. The pain was intense, and my husband said at once, "It is red-hot ash from the pipe." I at once reversed the thought of material ash, or a material eye, trying to realize that "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" (Science and Health, p. 468); and I also reversed the resentment which we had been holding in connection with the smoker. In a few moments the pain was gone. I was able to watch the performance and to walk about the grounds all the afternoon in bright sunshine, and forgot that anything had happened to my eye. Needless to say, I was very grateful for this instantaneous healing of what might have resulted in very serious consequences.

Once, in bathing my feet, I inadvertently poured boiling water over my left heel. As we were going for a long walk, and my husband was not a Christian Scientist, I was very anxious to realize the nothingness of the accident. I at once declared the truth that there is, in reality, no matter to be burned, or to swell, and reaching for my copy of Science and Health I opened it and read these words (p. 347): "Whatever is mortal or discordant has no origin, existence, nor realness." This met the difficulty. In a few moments I realized the truth of that statement, put on my stocking and shoe, and walked about all the afternoon without the slightest inconvenience.

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