Testimony of Healing January 24, 1931 Issue

During the fourteen years that have elapsed since I began...

ALISON BROWN

During the fourteen years that have elapsed since I began the study of Christian Science I have had many proofs of the healing power of Truth. My most recent cause for gratitude is for the healing of a skin disorder which seemed to be the result of poisoning. Previous to this most of the problems I had had to meet were those of mental difficulties, involving the overcoming of worry, sensitiveness, fear, and so forth; therefore, it was a testing time for me when I was called upon to apply my understanding of Christian Science to a physical ailment. I asked for help from a practitioner, and the response was instant and loving. For several days I did not go to work but remained at home and had ample time for study of the Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly, for perusal of the periodicals, and for quiet meditation.

About the third day the kind practitioner called to see me, and her words of cheer and comfort still further awakened me. She pointed out that man, as the spiritual idea of divine Mind, is forever maintained in his purity, perfection, and completeness, and that a spiritual idea can have nothing added to it or taken from it, thus dispelling the fear of contamination or poisoning. During the days I remained at home a little neighbor child often came to visit with me. To suffering personal sense it seemed that surely she must comment upon the disfigured countenance; but apparently the pure childlike consciousness was incapable of recognizing inharmony, and no comments were made: this in itself proved to be a valuable lesson. After a few days I returned to work, although the condition was still visible and I had to overcome the fear of being criticized, a sense of self-pity, and the false arguments of those who did not understand Christian Science and were solicitous for my welfare; but very few out of many associates spoke of the condition unless I first mentioned it.

At the end of a week it was necessary for the practitioner to leave town. She told me that she would continue to help me, but recommended that I keep my thought as uplifted as possible. Sunday came, and my face was still disfigured. I thought of staying at home and quietly reading the Bible Lesson, but I found that I wanted to go and join in the hymns. I was obedient to that right desire, and during the course of the service I experienced a decided spiritual uplift. All inflammation and rigidity left my face, and I had the feeling that I was awakening from a dream, as indeed I was. I felt that I had passed through the experience, and that I could no more return to the old beliefs and fears than a flower could return to its bud. But there was one more greatly needed lesson to be learned—that God's spiritual blessings of health, holiness, and healing cannot be withdrawn or reversed. In the days that followed, before the complete and perfect healing was manifested, I was enabled to stand firm amid arguments of doubt, fear, and impatience, through the reading of an editorial in the Sentinel, entitled "Baalam or Balak."

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