Testimony of Healing July 21, 1928 Issue

We delight to tell of instantaneous healings and speak...

Mary A. McIvor

We delight to tell of instantaneous healings and speak frequently of benefits received from a few treatments, but of the slow healing—the one that required months or even years of patient endeavor—there is a noticeable reluctance to speak, even a desire to withhold the testimony altogether. Having probed this tendency to the bottom, I see in mortal mind's reluctance convincing proof of Truth's need of such evidence, and gratefully bear witness to a healing which was not accomplished until after seven years.

When I began reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I was afflicted with many ills; but one, a digestive disorder, hid all the rest. It was the "big lion" always in my pathway, always destroying my pleasure, always tearing me with pain. When I learned from Science and Health that disease is an error of sense, and that the truth set forth therein is a healing word to every form of error, I began to work for release. The result was that many ills disappeared, and daily problems, scarcely "treated" at all according to later, more studied methods, were beautifully met. But the "big lion" was still there. I continued on, sometimes better and hopeful, sometimes worse and discouraged, always in the shadow of fear. At one time, when my trouble seemed especially aggravated, I yielded to old dependencies and sought relief at a mineral spring, where I had at one time received benefit; but results at this second visit were wholly disappointing.

Being in a city for a time, I asked help of a Christian Science practitioner and was benefited mentally rather than physically. On my return home, where I was quite apart from Scientists and the church, I was worse than before, the new manifestation taking the form of neuritis. Swathed in flannel in summer and in winter, and fearful of almost every kind of food, I was never free from pain. Insomnia and fearful headaches, occuring at intervals of a few days, made me so miserable that I yielded to the mesmeric belief that Christian Science, while helpful in many ways, and healing those who were very devout or who possessed a mysterious quality called faith, could not heal me. In this state of discouragement I did not attempt to study, but still kept up the reading of the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly each week, and used what understanding I had in many ways.

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