Testimony of Healing September 20, 1930 Issue

As I contemplate my experiences since beginning the...

Sarah G. Galbraith

As I contemplate my experiences since beginning the study of Christian Science, several healings seem equally important to me, but the one which follows continues to be a help to me in separating the false from the true.

There was a period some twelve years ago when I had frequent attacks of suffering with my heart, and when these spells passed I would be miserably weak for hours. I was living in the country at the time, and worked through the attacks, getting relief, but I now know that I did not protect my thought against their return as I should have done. However, some months passed without much trouble, and in the meantime I had returned to town, had the blessed privilege of class instruction, and was serving as Second Reader in a branch church.

One Sunday morning I was awakened suddenly by extreme pain such as I had never before endured, and with apparent leakage of the heart. I was in sheer panic for about ten minutes, and the suggestion repeatedly came, You can never read this morning. I thought desperately that help must be called, but I could not move, and to call for outside help would alarm my household. This was an interesting point to me, for, as I reached a protecting desire for my dear ones, my thinking immediately became more orderly. For the next ten minutes there was a strong, conscious wrestling with the suggestions of the carnal mind, the affirmation of the truth and denial of the error. Then the third portion of the half hour brought a wonderful illumination and sense of detachment, of standing apart and looking on at the pretense called pain, which had not in the least abated. There was a calm certainty that I — a divine idea of infinite Mind — was untouched by the false sense of suffering; and there was rejoicing in the consciousness of peace, the peace "which passeth all understanding."

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