Testimony of Healing August 23, 1930 Issue

I can never say how grateful I am for all the love that...

Ruth Green

I can never say how grateful I am for all the love that is manifested through Christian Science and for the healing power of divine Love. I should like to give two instances where I have been able to demonstrate this healing power.

While walking past a cottage I was suddenly struck violently on the nose, so that I was almost stunned. I was taken into the cottage, where I found that a man had thrown a large and very heavy iron hook out of the door without looking to see if anyone was approaching. I did not know very much of Christian Science then, but managed to get back to my flat, where I tried to read a Sentinel, which was the first thing I saw on entering. I had to be at a station in London within an hour to meet an elderly friend, and as she was not able to get about alone I was frightened lest I should not be able to keep my appointment. The pain was so intense I could not read much, but I suddenly saw that I was feeling very angry with the man who had thrown the hook; so I just sat still and tried to see that in reality man is the image and likeness of divine Love. The moment I began to see this the pain entirely left me, and I was able to go out and keep my appointment. There was only a very slight mark left on my nose, and this disappeared quickly.

In the second instance, as I was to become a member of a branch church I wished to be quite sure I had no feelings of malice or resentment towards anybody. On thinking this over I realized that I was not holding loving thoughts towards someone who had owed me some, money for quite a long time. I tried to see the truth about this, as we are taught in Christian Science, and after a little time I saw clearly that this person was, in reality, one of God's ideas and was reflecting God just as I was, and therefore we must both be reflecting Love. All thoughts of resentment entirely left, being replaced by love. The next morning the money came by the first post.

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