Testimony of Healing August 17, 1929 Issue

Some years ago I experienced a mental and physical...

Elizabeth A. Schultz

Some years ago I experienced a mental and physical breakdown. From early childhood I had always been remarkably unafraid, and when I suddently found myself, after some strenuous experiences, afraid of everyone and everything, in a dazed mental condition and unable to work, I was dumb with grief and terror-stricken over my condition. I had been living several days' journey from my people, and upon my arrival home the fear had become so great that practically every organ in the body either ceased to function at all or else did not function properly, and a collapse followed.

A brave, loving Christian Science practitioner responded to my call for help, and in the months which followed we witnessed many times the truth of Mrs. Eddy's statement on page 412 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "The power of Christian Science and divine Love is omnipotent. It is indeed adequate to unclasp the hold and to destroy disease, sin, and death." I was also learning that mesmerism, hypnotism, mental suggestion, domination, and so forth, when persistently and consistently opposed with right mental argument, are powerless to paralyze good or separate us from the love of God. After some days and nights when it seemed that I was in "the valley of the shadow," and at times scarcely conscious, an unconditional surrender of human will and self came; and healing began from that time. Then for days there followed the battle to claim normalcy and the ever present power of good. Though physical symptoms of various diseases came and went, I suffered no pain whatever.

Without discounting the great value and help gained from our other periodicals, it was during this daily mental struggle, constant during every waking hour, with little hope of recovery, that I learned the full mission and great healing power of The Christian Science Monitor. Each day my reading of this paper gave me more peace and quiet, and much of the time this reading was about the only assistance I could lend the faithful practitioner. However, this was sufficient gradually to break the intensity of the mental torment and turn my thought away from self. The news matter furnished me with constructive thoughts to replace terrifying fears and hopelessness, and thus strengthened my feeble hold when living seemed a process of just hanging on by a few threads, and letting go would have seemed a relief. Later this reading furnished me with conversation. Even the children's stories were eagerly read and helped to bring about that childlike quality of thinking so necessary to my healing. Some months later a study of the advertisements gave me an idea which aided me in getting employment.

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