Testimony of Healing January 18, 1930 Issue

The religion in which I had been brought up failed me...

Mary Olive Mellor

The religion in which I had been brought up failed me by the time I left school. A great longing to find Truth led me to study a number of religions, but having heard nothing more than a few derogatory remarks about Christian Scientists, I knew nothing of its teachings.

In February, 1915, on the day before I was to go to France to do war work, a relation said I looked ill and insisted upon my seeing a doctor immediately. The doctor diagnosed the trouble as Graves' disease and sent me to a nursing home by the sea for ten weeks. I was considered too ill to be told what was wrong with me or to see anyone. Still believing I should soon be able to work in France, I read books on nursing, and in them discovered what I was suffering from. I was then told that if I never had any worries I might get well eventually, but I would have to rest for at least three years.

The next two years were a time of waiting. I tried to study natural science, though sometimes heart trouble made it necessary for me to stay in bed and do even the practical work with the microscope there. I had become a nervous, crotchety invalid, labeled "difficult," and could not bear to be contradicted or kept waiting for anything. The sense of being utterly useless, when everyone else was working, was very depressing. And yet it was at this time, when I never read the Bible because I could not understand it, that I became convinced that the truth was, after all, to be found in Christianity, and that eventually I should find the key which would reveal it to me. So firm did this conviction become that when a doctor, for whose unselfish work I had the greatest respect, spoke of her hopes of the part medicine was destined to play in the future for the alleviation of human misery, I said I hoped so too, but felt sure that some day the spiritual law by which Jesus had healed the sick would be rediscovered and would replace other methods of healing.

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