Testimony of Healing July 6, 1929 Issue

I began the study of Christian Science for the healing...

Vesta M. Tucker

I began the study of Christian Science for the healing of a malignant growth, which had been troubling me for about three years. My sister had talked to me about Christian Science, but I said that, while I believed Christian Science would heal some things, I could not see how it could possibly heal a condition such as mine. I kept on for more than two years with other means, trying to avoid an operation which a surgeon had ordered to be performed at once. I felt that this would afford only temporary relief, as that had been the experience of so many others with a similar condition. At the end of two years the osteopathic treatments which had seemed to be helping me for some time failed to help any longer, and the condition was rapidly growing worse. Then because I had such a fear of the operation, I finally decided to try Christian Science for a while at least. After about four weeks' treatment with seemingly no improvement, the condition suddenly became very much worse, so that I was suffering greatly, and the fear and discouragement in addition made it seem impossible to go on. I went to the practitioner therefore and told her I would have to give up Christian Science and have the operation. She talked very lovingly to me for a while, and then asked if I cared to have another treatment. I agreed because I did not want to refuse, as she had been so kind; but I had no faith in the result. I had seemed, all the time, to resent her continual denial of the reality of this evil, when it seemed to me that I knew it was real, as I could both feel and see it.

Before that treatment was ended I suddenly had a most wonderful glimpse of what she had been trying to tell me regarding the absolute perfection of God's creation and of man in His image and likeness, and of the nothingness of anything not created by Him—in this instance, a malignant growth. In that instant all the pain, fear, and discouragement fell away from me as though I had suddenly dropped a heavy burden: I was healed. I had gone to the practitioner in tears, and now left so filled with joy and gratitude that I seemed to be walking on air. This was nearly eight years ago.

Another outstanding healing in my experience occurred five years ago, of an attack diagnosed as appendicitis and acute kidney trouble. The pain was so intense that there had been only about thirty minutes' sleep in two days and nights. The third night I went to sleep toward morning and slept for about five hours, when I awoke entirely free from pain. It seemed so hard to believe that I was almost afraid to move, as the morning before my head could not be raised from the pillow to give me a dring of water. The next day I twice walked several blocks for my meals, attended church that evening, and after church walked about half a mile. The physician who made the diagnosis, on learning that I had walked uptown the second day after he saw me, told a friend it was nothing less than a miracle; and for a long time afterward, whenever he saw her he would ask if I was still all right, as he could scarcely believe it.

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