Testimony of Healing July 14, 1928 Issue

Thinking over the many blessings which have come to...

May Vertrees Gillmore

Thinking over the many blessings which have come to me since taking up the study of Christian Science, I can no longer refrain from giving my testimony, that it may help others as it has helped me.

It is a little over four years since I took up this study, and the blessings which have come to me in that short time are many. The disease of which I was first healed had been diagnosed as neuritis, which made its appearance after a surgical operation for tumor. The disease caused my right arm to become stiff and very painful; I could not raise it high enough to comb my hair. In this condition I was unable to sleep or rest without binding my arm tightly with adhesive tape from wrist to elbow; for this seemed to give me relief for a few hours, and rest was prescribed by the physician as the only cure.

After enduring this for several months I decided to try Christian Science, so purchased a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I read for several days without understanding, though confident that the book contained the truth of which I was so much in need. I continued reading, and in about a week's time found myself using sentences which I had read; and they were helping me. I became so absorbed in my reading that I completely forgot about my physical condition until one morning, when asked how I felt, I declared that I felt fine and remembered I had been sleeping well. Upon feeling my arm, I found that all pain and stiffness had left it completely. Rejoicing that I had found the truth and the freedom which it gives, I lived many months in the high and secret place; for, as the Psalmist puts it, I had "made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High" my habitation. But only too soon I found I had to descend into the valley to work upward through spiritual understanding; and in this way Christian Science has met my every need. When sorrow encompassed me, I was comforted by the truth; when friends seemed to prove faithless and enemies slandered, I was given strength to endure, at times being compelled to seek higher ground. At other times I was led to see my own shortcomings and mistakes, and given the glorious comfort of a strong sense of Truth's correction, not condemnation. I am rejoicing daily that "all things are become new," and am happily working on to the realization of God's kingdom already come.

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