Testimony of Healing March 16, 1929 Issue

In Isaiah we read, "The people that walked in darkness...

Miriam Violet Munns

In Isaiah we read, "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was the light that shone into my darkness and dispelled the shadow of death that seemed to be drawing round me. I had never been free from a very bad cough, which seemed to get worse in spite of every material means I tried, and eventually my throat became tubercular. My sufferings were intense. I did not wish to leave my children, who were very young; and I had an awful fear of death. While I was groping about trying to realize something of the God I thought I had to meet so soon, a dear friend who lived next door to a Christian Scientist asked me to see the latter. I did not know anything about Christian Science, but I did want to meet someone who could tell me more about God. The lady came, and told me that God is Love and that heaven is here and now. This was a revelation to me, and I must have been healed then. I got a copy of Science and Health, and I did "eat" the little book. I realized that God is my Life and that instead of having to meet the unknown I had never been separated from Him who is my Life. I began to talk, although I had not spoken for three months. I began to see the new heaven and the new earth. On page 228 of the textbook these words stood out: "There is no power apart from God." I gained fourteen pounds in weight in a fortnight.

Since that wonderful time many healings have come about in our family. Our little girl jumped on a rusty nail which went through her foot, but through realizing that "nothing inharmonious can enter being" (ibid.), it healed in a few hours, and there were no after effects. I asked her how many powers there were, and she answered, "One, mother." We knew that a nail had no power and could do nothing. On another occasion our little boy injured the back of his head, and while I was attending to him the words of a beautiful hymn, "Life, Truth, and Love the pattern make," came to me. I explained to him that we can neither see, touch, nor smell God,—Life, Truth, and Love,—and that our real selves consist of His reflection and not of matter; and when he went to bed was healed. On yet another occasion our other little daughter seemed very ill. I had been knowing the truth for her, but she appeared to get worse. Fear crept in; and then a voice seemed to say: Who says she is worse? I knew it was not God saying it, but that it must be that which Jesus said was a liar from the beginning. All fear went; and then Love whispered: "The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul." As I went upstairs again the voice seemed to say, God is the only real presence and the only real power—and I knew I had to look for no other. When I went into the room my daughter sat up—healed—and asked for something to play with. I am learning to listen for this voice—the "still small voice" of Truth.

Another experience was that of poisoning, five years ago. I began to feel very ill, and by night was delirious. There came the thought, however, that this was not in God, that as He is infinite, there could be nothing outside of Him. My husband declared "the scientific statement of being" (Science and Health, p. 468) repeatedly throughout the night, but I appeared to get worse. He sent for a Christian Science friend, who sat up with me; and once they thought I was passing on. The truth was steadfastly adhered to, and in a week I was able to get up. I had to learn through this experience that there is nothing from without that entering in can defile one, but only that which comes "forth from the heart" can do so. I learned that resentment and bitterness and a sense of injustice are no part of God's idea, man, and my earnest desire now is so to know divine Love that I shall see man as "altogether lovely." Truth is our only physician; and since my healing neither my husband, our children, nor I have used any material means. The textbook is our refuge, and we find it "a very present help in trouble."—(Mrs.)Miriam Violet Munns, Erith, Kent, England.

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