Testimony of Healing September 26, 1931 Issue

I gained my first correct impression of Christian Science...

Hazel W. Alquist

I gained my first correct impression of Christian Science at a Wednesday evening testimony meeting, and within a year I was attending the church services and lectures. Christian Science interested me because it appealed to reason; and I wished to gain the revelation that made Christian Scientists well, happy, and loving. I began to study the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly. At this time, in the winter of 1916, I was studying to obtain a teacher's degree and also practicing for a piano recital to be given in June. I lacked the strength necessary for daily practice, and also the necessary funds for living expenses and tuition at the school of music which I was attending. A friend advised me to consult a Christian Science practitioner, and I did. My fears were overcome, my strength returned, and my immediate needs were met. Several months later, however, it became necessary for me to relinquish my musical career when almost ready to receive my degree of Bachelor of Music.

During the next few years I passed through trials and sorrow, but I clung to Christian Science. Though then far from churches and practitioners, I had "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy; and I subscribed for our Journal, Sentinel, and Quarterly. It was in October, 1919, while reading an article in The Christian Science Journal, that I was instantly healed of a lacerated ankle after being on crutches for three days. Reading the quotation from Acts, where Paul declares that we live, move, and have our being in God, and repeating the fourth verse of Mrs. Eddy's hymn "Christ My Refuge" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 397; Poems, p. 12), which I had learned, brought the light; and I was so uplifted that I rose and walked without pain.

As I progressed by degrees of purified thought I had physical, moral, and financial healings. I found myself transplanted to a more harmonious environment, and again in a home of my own. In 1922 I was healed of a diabetic ulcer, about the size of a quarter, on my right foot. It disappeared within three weeks. All the help I had was from the reading of Science and Health. The chapters entitled "Creation" and "Marriage" met my need. The false belief and fear of heredity (my father and his father passed on with this trouble) were cast out by the truth which I found there. It is expressed thus in the latter chapter by Mrs. Eddy (Science and Health, p. 63): "In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beautiful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry.... Spirit is his primitive and ultimate source ofbeing; God is his Father, and Life is the law of his being." I have never seen any more indications of the disease.

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