Testimony of Healing December 6, 1930 Issue

I am grateful for those three words "God is Love" which...

Emma E. Merrill

I am grateful for those three words "God is Love" which appear over the platform in so many Christian Science churches. Such was the case in the church which I first attended, purely out of curiosity. A few months later, while attending a dancing class, I tore the ligaments in my ankle; and before one of the young ladies left the hall she remarked that she knew there would be no pain there and that it would be all right. I immediately asked if she were a Christian Scientist, and she replied that she was. The marvelous part of it was that there was no pain at all that night; but as I did not know enough to help myself or to call a Christian Science practitioner, quite a problem followed. However, the seeds were being sown.

Later, in speaking of Christian Science, a friend said that if I ever came to a point in life where I could not solve a problem myself, Christian Science would do it, whether it were mental, physical, or financial. A year or more later I seemed to have reached "man's extremity," for I was exceedingly unhappy. I remembered what this friend had said and decided to go to a Reading Room to borrow a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I shall always be grateful for the kind words given me by the attendant there. When I started to read the chapter on Prayer I knew that I had found a practical religion. At the time I was employed in an office where conditions were most inharmonious, but it was not over two weeks before I was offered a position with a salary almost one third greater.

Of the physical problems, the biggest has been that of a broken and dislocated ankle. Through this, the first big lesson I learned was the necessity to "stand porter at the door of thought" (Science and Health, p. 392), for another member of our family had had a similar but more severe experience; and while I had been knowing the truth about this situation, yet I had done no special protective work for myself. Then there was a lesson in correcting criticism. There was also a lesson in patience, for I had to wait until things were done for me, something I had never had to do before; also a wonderful lesson in neighborliness, for a kind neighbor came in each morning to do the necessary things; and above all, a lesson in loving-kindness, for there were so many kind and loving things done and said, that I am sure I shall always be better for having had it. Although this was far from an instantaneous healing, yet I am sure that I needed these lessons. I was able to drive my car through light traffic at the end of eight weeks.

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