Testimony of Healing May 24, 1930 Issue

I am grateful to bear testimony to the healing power of...

Nellie S. Davidson

I am grateful to bear testimony to the healing power of Christian Science. Over nineteen years ago, immediately after graduating from a university, I found myself undergoing treatment in one of the best private hospitals of that city. I was suffering from a serious condition of abscess. The attendant surgeon declared I could never recover. Other specialists pronounced the same verdict. After I was sent home, the family physician refused to come, saying he could do nothing for me.

At this time a relative secured the services of a Christian Science practitioner and I received absent treatment for one week. I gained rapidly, and in a few weeks made a trip to the Pacific Coast alone. I knew nothing of Christian Science, and I never saw the practitioner. At this time the belief that there could be any healing power in drugs left me. Later, other systems of healing were employed, but without avail. Again, in my extremity, I turned to Christian Science and was healed in three treatments of a very serious condition of acute indigestion which had troubled me for years. This healing was permanent and complete, and so wonderful to me that I at once began the study of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. As a result of this study and attendance at church services I was soon able to lay aside my glasses, and sick headaches gradually disappeared.

A few years ago I was placed in circumstances which caused continuous anxiety and intense fear. In time this inharmonious mental state manifested itself in a correspondingly inharmonious body. The constant irritation and friction resulted in a complicated diseased condition. Repression and cumulative wrong thinking were manifested in a general upheaval of the body. Every organ seemed out of order and ceased to function properly. There was no medical diagnosis, as there was no desire for one. Radical reliance was placed on Truth. Although healing was slow, I am grateful for this, for I learned more about God and man in His image and likeness. There were many errors of sinful to be cast out of my thinking—criticism, hatred, resentment, and other evils. I could never express in words the gratitude I feel for the untiring efforts of loving practitioners at this time. I can only strive to live the gratitude I feel.

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