Testimony of Healing October 3, 1931 Issue

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

Gladys E. Stanbury

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says (pp. 243, 244): "Perfection does not animate imperfection. Inasmuch as God is good and the fount of all being, He does not produce moral or physical deformity; therefore such deformity is not real, but is illusion, the mirage of error." How wonderful to know that God never produced deformity! In the orthodox church I was taught to believe that God was Love, but that He punished us. How wrong that statement is! Because if God, our Father-Mother, is Love, how can He inflict punishment on His dear children! Mrs. Eddy says that sin punishes itself, which points to error's final self-destruction.

These thoughts have helped me greatly to overcome deformity. I had been a cripple since birth, and the doctors used every means to help me. I had a cast, and then a brace. Neither proving of any help, I was taken to a hospital, where sand bags were put on my leg to straighten it. Nothing more could be done save to cut my leg off from the knee down, it was said, or cut the cords in the back of my knee, to which my mother strongly objected. I was therefore removed from the hospital and brought home, where I walked on crutches for five years.

We heard of Christian Science, but did not sufficiently understand it. A practitioner was, however, asked to help me. Several years passed, but I was still using my crutches. I was going to the Christian Science Sunday School, where I was being prepared to behold the wondrous Love to be shown me. The practitioner told my mother that she had done her part, and that the remainder was my mother's part to do. My mother asked God to show  her the way. One night soon afterwards it came to her that what God created must be perfect, and that what she had been seeing was the imperfect manifestation of the material senses. My mother so recognized her error that she asked God to forgive her for looking upon His child with a crippled thought. I presented myself on my crutches to my mother that morning and she took me to see my aunt. When I arrived there I immediately went into the garden to play with my cousin. My aunt went to my mother and asked her if I did not have to use my crutches. My mother did not answer, but saw me playing with both feet on the ground. She silently went away and lifted up her heart to God in praise. No one asked me where my crutches were till I got home. I said I did not know; afterwards they were found at the back of the clothes press. This was ten years ago, and I have never been troubled with my leg since.

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