Testimony of Healing July 12, 1930 Issue

I wish to express my deepest gratitude for what Christian Science...

Florence M. A. Shaw

I wish to express my deepest gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. It has helped and blessed me for a number of years, and has healed me of chronic throat trouble, of quinsy and tonsillitis, of constipation, and of fear of almost every description.

One healing seems to stand out as being most wonderful. I went to bed early one Thursday not feeling well and needing the quiet that Christian Science alone can give. These words from "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 290) kept coming to me as an angel-visitant: "Trust in Him whose love enfolds thee. 'Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee.' 'Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee.' Divine Love is never so near as when all earthly joys seem most afar." I went to sleep, but awoke a little before one o'clock in extreme pain. With difficulty I raised myself to reach for the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which was by my bedside. As I read, the pain lessened, but in about ten minutes it returned and was more severe than before. I began to feel myself losing consciousness. As I was alone in my room, with no telephone, and was thirteen miles from a practitioner, I wondered what to do. I waked my husband, but unfortunately as a result of quickly rising from his bed and becoming alarmed at my condition, he fainted on the floor of my room. All this seemed a severe experience as, although calm and unafraid, I seemed to be seriously ill; but all the time I clung to the words quoted above. I then went to the maids' room and asked them to bring my son and daughter, who were sleeping near by. My son motored off for help, and my daughter, after helping my husband to his room, came to me. She started reading from Science and Health; and as she read I was arrested and awakened by the words on page 391, "Instead of blind and calm submission to the incipient or advanced stages of disease, rise in rebellion against them;" also on page 393: "Mind is the master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness, sin, and death. Exercise this God-given authority. Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action." I said, "Read it again and again;" and when I felt my strength returning, I asked her to place the book in front of me and leave me. As I continued to read, the truth of the words dawned on my consciousness as never before, and I felt that I was healed. When the practitioner came about half past two, I was feeling free, and after a helpful talk said, "I am better and want to sleep." On Saturday I was up early and breakfasted at eight o'clock as usual. I carried out all my customary daily work that day and drove my car thirteen miles to church on Sunday morning. I felt most grateful that I had been able to look death in the face without fear, and see its nothingness.

I can never be grateful enough to Mrs. Eddy, and as time goes on I more and more appreciate all she has done for mankind. I am grateful for the loving and selfless work of Christian Science practitioners, and deeply grateful for the whole Christian Science organization and to all those faithful ones who work in and for it.—(Mrs.) Florence M. A. Shaw, Hordle, Hampshire, England.

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